# How do you add another person to a private message when it's already sent?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-add-another-person-to-a-private-message-when-its-already-sent/43357
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 27, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-add-another-person-to-a-private-message-when-its-already-sent/43357 "2016-04-27T23:16:54Z")
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### Author: ![EricGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-add-another-person-to-a-private-message-when-its-already-sent/43357/8 "2021-07-14T20:28:36Z")

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One would think that being an admin and using Discourse on multiple sites for a few years I would know this, but so untrue.

As noted in the [original post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-add-another-person-to-a-private-message-when-its-already-sent/43357) I thought the use of @ would invite someone to a private/personal message. But that is not the case.

Also as noted there is the `invite button` but after searching the entire topic and checking all the buttons including the wrench it turns out there is no button named `invite`. Instead just under the first post is

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/f/bfff6bc64c807bc37b392cbc28068ee809e0a624.png)

It is pretty obvious how it works so I will not elaborate.

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The reason for adding the reply here is because this topic is the first result Google offered.

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