How to handle unwanted Facebook Friend Requests

While roaming through the social media like Facebook, it is the chance the you may get a friend request from  unknown person or  from some unwanted person. In that case you have the option to not accept it and keep it pending, or click to confirm it….In the earlier case the person may get annoyed,especially if you have some social media relations with him.

So how to handle such unwanted Facebook friend requests or the case when you can not reject a Friend request on Facebook….? Is there any other way that we accept the Facebook Friend Request and also did not allow him to participate fully in your Facebook activity.

Don’t worry….

You are at the right place to do so. Because in that case he will be your friend but will only see such posts that are share  PUBLIC ALLY and will not able to see such posts that you share with other friends.

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How to handle unwanted Facebook Friend Requests:

There are twooptions for that:

1- Block unwanted Friend requests that are not your friends:

If you have repetive friend requests from those persons that you want to ignore (momentry or permanently) by adjusting privacy settings, so follow:

  1. Go to Facebook Settings > Privacy > and find the “How people find and contact you” section.
  2. Choose to limit friend requests to “Friends of friends” instead of “Everyone”.

2- Block or Confined your existing friends:

To put your existing frieds in restricting mode, just follow the steps:

  1. Log in to Facebook.
  2. Go to the Friend  Facebook Profile ( whom you want to restrict )
  3. Choose the “Add to New List” option from the Friends drop-down and select Restricted.

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In this way you can limitize your unwanted friend requests. You can also report for the repetive friend requests to avoid such things in future. You cannot permanently block friend requests, instead you can limitise them to hamper in future.

1 thought on “How to handle unwanted Facebook Friend Requests”

  1. Seriously, it’s very important tips for Facebook user because so many spammers are active on Facebook. Best idea to deal with them. Thanks for sharing!

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