How to Send Facebook Friend Requests

How to Send Facebook Friend Requests : Social networking giant Facebook is known to run the wrath of its users every now and then. While there’s no denying that most Internet users are now, for better or for worse, completely hooked onto Facebook, one cannot ignore the fact that these regular glitches and unwanted modifications usually leave most Facebook users grumbling and disgruntled.

Facebook is a great way of keeping in touch with friends; you can share photos, chat, and keep up to date with each other’s lives – if the person wants to be friends with you, that is.

The reality is, not everyone wants to be your Facebook friend. Everyone uses Facebook differently, some accept friend requests from everyone, others want to keep work and home life separate, while some people just ignore requests altogether.

You might not know, but you can quickly find out exactly who you have a sent a Facebook friend request to and see any pending requests that the recipient hasn’t responded to.

How to check sent Facebook friend requests

1: Open Facebook on a computer and click the ‘Friend requests’ icon on the top right menu bar.

2: A drop-down box appears – click ‘View all’ at the bottom.

3: Look for and click ‘View Sent Requests’.

4: You’ll see any outgoing friend requests that haven’t been accepted. If you don’t have any, it will say ‘No Sent Friend Requests’.

5: Cancel outgoing request by hovering over ‘Friend Request Sent’ and clicking ‘Cancel Request’.

So in today’s article we will reveal several things that might cause this unfortunate situation and suggest ways to curb this occurrence.

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One to to take note of is that Facebook will never send out request on your behalf so it is better you check from your end what might have gone wrong with your account. Perform the following actions on your account.

Check the list of apps that are connected with your Facebook account and review the permissions you granted to them or simply uninstall and remove these apps from your Facebook account.

  • Your account might have been compromised, so kindly change the password to your FB & the password to the email you use for FB. Once you change your password, ensure you choose to log out of all devices where you signed in your account.
  • Remove any form of browser or Facebook Adds-on or extension connected to your browser
  • Clear your browser’s cache & cookies if you use any form of web browser to access Facebook.
  • Performing these steps will help you gain full access back to your account and going forward ensure you take these important points into consideration
  • Ensure you don’t save your Facebook Login Credentials if you access your Account on someone else’s device
    Change your Password often
  • Check the apps you connect with Facebook and read there terms and conditions before you accept hem and grant permissions
  • Use strong Passwords on all your accounts

Am sure if you strictly follow these steps, you will resolve the issues on Facebook sending friend requests automatically, it is certain that Facebook does not automatically send requests on your behalf.