Disclosed aspects relate to response status management in a social networking environment. A message from a source user to a recipient user may be detected in the social networking environment in response to a triggering event, wherein the triggering event is the recipient user being added to a guest list, and wherein the message is a party invitation. A set of message response actions related to the recipient user may be identified. A response status may be determined based on the set of message response actions, wherein the response status relates to the recipient user. An indication of the response status may be provided to the source user, wherein the indication includes a gif video indicator.