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How Can I Prevent Unknown Facebook Users from Sending Me Friend Request?
How do I stop unsolicited friend requests on Facebook?
Why am I getting friend requests from people I dont know?
Why are so many random people sending me friend requests?

How Can I Prevent Unknown Facebook Users from Sending Me Friend Request?

Thread starter viveknayyar007
Start date Mar 15, 2014
Tags Apps Facebook Privacy tutorial

If your friend request notification list is flooded with strangers’ requests, you need to restrict certain privileges in your settings in order to stop this anarchy.

To change the privileges you must follow the steps given below:

After modifying the privacy settings, you will not receive anonymous friend requests by the people you don’t know on Facebook. Only the friends of the friends who are added in your friend list will be able to send you friend requests.

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How do I stop unsolicited friend requests on Facebook?

And you can stop them via this very simple trick:.

Go to your Facebook settings: ..

Choose Privacy in the left side menu: ..

Find the section called How people can find and contact you: ..

Behind Who can send you friend requests? you find a link called Edit. ... .

In the drop down menu that appears, choose Friends of friends:.

Why am I getting friend requests from people I dont know?

Today most of the friend requests we get are from people we don't know. Many of them are fake accounts, set up by spammers and hackers trying to get some of your information. You may delete those friend requests but that is not always the end of the story.

Why are so many random people sending me friend requests?

The answer is: You receive a huge number of friend requests because Facebook is showing your profile in the People You May Know section to a lot of people. The People You May Know section appears under Find Friends, but will occasionally appear in the News Feed or Notifications.