Recent Friend Requests – Facebook is renowned for its exceptional capacity to maintain people’s connections. However, in order for this relationship to be established, users are required to send and accept friend requests from other users.
By accepting friend requests, you’re giving those friends access to follow your activities on Facebook, read your posts, view your uploaded photos etc. Nevertheless, you can limit their access by adjusting your privacy settings.
It’s easy to identify and accept friend requests, as Facebook ensures you receive a notification for every friend request you get. These notifications show up in the notification tray on the Facebook homepage.
Read on to learn how to find these friend requests and either accept or reject them as you wish to.
How To Check Recent Friend Requests
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to check recent friend requests on Facebook for various devices:
On Computer:
- Visit the Facebook official website and log in to your Facebook account if you’re not already logged in to Facebook.
- On the left sidebar, click Friends.
- Now, you will see a list of all your recent friend requests. You can choose to either accept or reject requests individually by clicking the Confirm or Delete buttons next to or below a request.
On Android Devices and iPhone/iPad:
- Open the Facebook Mobile App (latest or updated version).
- Log in to your Facebook account if you’re not already logged in to Facebook.
- Tap the hamburger menu icon (three horizontal lines) in the top-right corner (Android) or in the bottom-right corner (iPhone/iPad) of your Facebook homepage.
- Scroll down and tap Friends.
- Now, you will see a list of all your recent friend requests. You can choose to either accept or reject requests individually by clicking the Confirm or Delete buttons next to or below a request.
General Note: Once you click the Confirm button and accept friend requests, those friends will automatically be added to your Facebook friends list. And when you delete a friend request, the person who sent you the request isn’t notified and can’t send you another request for one year.
Reasons you are Unable to Send or Accept a Friend Request on Facebook
You may not be able to add someone as a friend on Facebook if:
- You or the person you want to add have reached the friend limit. [You can have up to 5,000 friends on Facebook. Also, you won’t be able to accept a friend request from someone who has 5,000 friends.]
- The friend request was deleted.
- They haven’t accepted your friend request yet, or you’re already friends on Facebook.
- You or the person you want to add can only get friend requests from friends of friends. [One of you may have set your privacy settings to get friend requests only from friends of friends on Facebook. So, ask them to send you a request instead or change your privacy settings.]
- You’ve been blocked from sending friend requests.
- You’ve blocked them. [To send a friend request to someone you’ve blocked, you must unblock them first, then send them a friend request.]
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