What does respond to friend request mean

Creating an Account. Your Profile. Adding Friends. People You May Know. Upload Your Contacts to Facebook. Unfriending or Blocking Someone. Your Home Page. Your Photos and Videos. Videos on Watch. Amber Viescas is a year-old freelancer who has been writing since , penning articles for sites such as Nu Home Source. She has a Bachelor of Arts in computer science from Swarthmore College and has co-published a paper in the "Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. By Amber Viescas. Friending on Facebook There are multiple ways to acquire friends on Facebook.

What it Means The message "Awaiting Friend Confirmation" means, in effect, that you have not been friended back on Facebook. Initiation and Acceptance It can be a little confusing to see the "waiting for confirmation" message when you weren't the one to initiate the request, but instead were accepting a request from another user. Trying to expand your network too quickly could get you blocked from adding more Facebook friends. Maybe it already happened to you, and you can't friend someone on Facebook?

On Facebook, innocent mistakes and ignorance of essential Facebook etiquette can lead to consequences like these. But with our tips on how to manage Facebook friend requests, you can avoid facing unintentional punishment or lift an existing block and continue making many new friends.

Here is a little refresher on the basics of adding friends for those of you not too familiar with Facebook. Everyone else, please skip ahead.

Facebook no longer highlights pending friend requests, but you will see a note in your Facebook notifications. On your Facebook Friends page, you'll see a summary of pending friend requests and a list of people you may know in the left-hand sidebar.

Click a person's name on the left to see their full profile on the right. Select Confirm to add a friend or Delete Request to deny the request. The sender won't be notified. You can also search for people you know, open their profiles, and, if they accept friend requests from the public or friends of friends, add them by clicking the Add Friend button located right next to the Message button.

To cancel a friend request, go back to their profile, click that same button, which now reads Cancel Request. You can also remove a friend via your Friends list. Facebook does not notify people if you remove them. However, it is possible to track your Facebook friends with third-party tools and receive alerts when people remove you. An example of such a tool is Who Deleted Me. Rather than unfriending people who are flooding your News Feed with silly posts, try unfollowing them instead.

That way you can maintain your sanity, without risking the loss of a friendship. For more information, read our primer on following and unfollowing on Facebook. Science says that it actually helps you live longer. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts.

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