So Today one of my friend’s
Facebook account was hit by some spammer and he asked me to have a look over it.
Giving the details of the problem he was facing he told me that, Today on my
notification I see many notices that says some Mr./Miss X, Y, Z has accepted your friend request these are
the persons I never remember to whom I have send the requests.
When I had a look of his
notification his concern seem to be genuine as many of the friend requests were
getting accepted on a single day and most of them were strangers. So, There was
definitely something fishy.
As an instant solution he wanted
me to cancel all the pending requests sent to the strangers and he was Ok with
those who already have accepted his friend request (as a result of those spammy
request).
I never had encountered such
issue so even I needed to do a bit of research, but most of the article related
to the topic that is “How to Cancel the
Pending Facebook Friend requests” over internet were obsolete as Facebook
changes its user interface over the time frequently. Even The Great Technology
Blog “Labnol.org” by Amit Agarwal had some outdated materials for this.
An Article on this suggested me
to download my All Facebook Data and follow the process which would have taken
me a day or more to complete and I was like … ROFL!
So I did a bit of research on
my own profile and have come up with two great Ideas that are really a life
saver and can be completed in just minutes:
The first one I would say is a
perfect white Hat method and takes more time if you don't have too many friend request
sent and have not been approved by the person. This method is likely to be
useful for those who have not been hit by the spam rather they have sent the
friend request intentionally to a few people which have not been accepted.
1st
Method: Cancel Pending Friend Request One by one
I would advise you to follow
this step if you have not sent too many friend requests that are yet to be
approved and many of those requests are pending. Simply because you have to
cancel each sent request one by one and that takes a bit of time.
Now follow these steps:
1. Go to
your Facebook timeline. For that you need to click your name on the facebook
home page.
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Cancel all pending facebook friend request |
2. Click
on the activity Log.
3. On the Left
sidebar of the Facebook page click on the “More”
button you can see the Activity logs which shows your chart of different Facebook
activities. Here we are concerned with friend’s activity so click on the link “friends” as shown in the image 2.
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Cancel all pending facebook friend request |
4. Now you
are in to your Friends activity log book.
You can see here all your “friend
request sent”, “friend request accepted” and “friend request received”.
5. Now all
you have to do “Ctrl+F” and type in “sent”.
6. You
will be able to see all the instances where you have send a friend request which are still pending.
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Cancel all pending facebook friend request |
7. Now The
process is simple, just hover your mouse on the person’s name, A sort bio
window of the person will appear
8. Now, Hover
your mouse on the “Friend Request Sent”
button and click on “Unfriend”.
9. Bingo, you
are done!
2nd
Method: The Apparent Black Hat Method.
This method is advisable if you
have been hit by a “Multiple Friend Request sending” spam or you have sent a
friend request in bulk or have been caught red handed by your Girlfriend/wife
sending request to different girl. ;)
This Method I call a black hat
method because you will be fooling Facebook in doing something out of the
Facebook Norms.
So here You Go:
1. Pick
out any random name you think of.
2. Search
that name in Facebook friend finder.
3. Pick
out any random one from the search result and check that you are not anyway
connected with him also the guy/girl has lot many friends and the list of
friend is shared.
4. Now go
to his Friend section and start sending friend requests randomly to every
person you see in the list.
5. After
sending a good number of friend request say 50. Facebook will prompt you that
“You
are sending friend request to multiple person and your friend request has been
blocked for next two days. i.e. You will not be abl to send any request for
next two days”.
Now click on the next button and on the next screen it will ask you want to “cancel the entire pending friend request”.
Say yes
to that and just click next.
(Note: You will not be able to send any friend request by this method for the next two days).
6. Now click
on the Like button of our Facebook page. ;)
7. And
Voila! You have cancelled all of your previously sent friend requests.
<========================== UPDATE ==========================>
You can also directly see the list of friend request sent and people you may know list HERE
Pre-Condition = You should be logged in to your Facebook Acc.
<========================== UPDATE ==========================>
You can also directly see the list of friend request sent and people you may know list HERE
Pre-Condition = You should be logged in to your Facebook Acc.
<========================== UPDATE ==========================>
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. BTW facebook has just blocked me for a month and forced me to cancel all request. It was a more easy method as compared to you have shared here. :D
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