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Facebook friend requeat glitch

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Jamhamlamb · 12/05/2023 13:45

Is anybody else experiencing this glitch? You go onto somebody's page and it automatically requests them as a friend.

Beware stalkers! 😆

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MrsDoylesDoily · 12/05/2023 17:43

I can't find my activity log.

Then again I normally FB from my laptop so hopefully it doesn't affect me Blush

QueenConsort · 12/05/2023 17:43

Plus he's not on there so won't be aware of the glitch. He'll just think I'm crazy!!!

WotNoUserName · 12/05/2023 17:49

Eek, I thought I'd be fine but I've sent 3 requests today! A wife and daughter of someone I'm friends with on there, and someone I used to be friends with but unfriended me. I've deleted the wife and daughter and left the other as I don't mind if she accepts.

I haven't had any requests, so no one has been looking me up. Today.

Just tried looking at my DS (who I'm not friends with on Facebook) and it hasn't added him. I use both an iPad and an android phone. I'm usually so careful not to like stuff or add people, so not sure how it's happened.

Blondey2023 · 12/05/2023 17:52

Thank you for this thread, I checked if I was affected by it and....

It had sent a friend request to my DH's BOSS!! OMG. That will teach me for having a nose at his profile.

QueenConsort · 12/05/2023 17:53

This is just terrible! Is DH boss or exes new GF worse?

Blondey2023 · 12/05/2023 17:55

QueenConsort · 12/05/2023 17:53

This is just terrible! Is DH boss or exes new GF worse?

Both utterly horrendous! Shit shit shit.

Londontoderby · 12/05/2023 17:55

Hahaha DH’s boss!! I shouldn’t be enjoying others misery but this thread has me in stitches!! I’m sure in a few months time everyone will look back and laugh 🥳

MrsDoylesDoily · 12/05/2023 17:57

WotNoUserName · 12/05/2023 17:49

Eek, I thought I'd be fine but I've sent 3 requests today! A wife and daughter of someone I'm friends with on there, and someone I used to be friends with but unfriended me. I've deleted the wife and daughter and left the other as I don't mind if she accepts.

I haven't had any requests, so no one has been looking me up. Today.

Just tried looking at my DS (who I'm not friends with on Facebook) and it hasn't added him. I use both an iPad and an android phone. I'm usually so careful not to like stuff or add people, so not sure how it's happened.

I'm usually so careful not to like stuff or add people, so not sure how it's happened.

It's happened due to a FB glitch/bug.

Tacocatgoatcheesepizza · 12/05/2023 17:58

just braved it to have a look and it tells me the last friend request I sent was in 2007!! So that clearly isn’t right.

Blondey2023 · 12/05/2023 17:59

Londontoderby · 12/05/2023 17:55

Hahaha DH’s boss!! I shouldn’t be enjoying others misery but this thread has me in stitches!! I’m sure in a few months time everyone will look back and laugh 🥳

I won't be here in a few months. I'm changing identity and moving to Mexico. Sweet jesus I don't even know how to explain this to DH if it gets bought up.

WotNoUserName · 12/05/2023 18:00

Yeah, I've just read about it after I posted. At least it wasn't too bad for me!

Ginandrosemary · 12/05/2023 18:00

Teacher here. Had parent requests! Now checking I don't have anything dodgy in profile pics.

RunThroughTheJungle · 12/05/2023 18:00

I've had a request from my exes new girlfriend. I'm going to text it over to him and tell him to sort it out. Hilarious.

Seems like she's all insecure, stalking the wife.

QueenConsort · 12/05/2023 18:02

Ahhh, my ex thinks I'm all mature and over it too what the hell! Praying to God she doesn't tell him...shit, shit, shit.

QueenConsort · 12/05/2023 18:05

I also stalked his ex and she got one too! It's just come up. Things just couldn't get any worse.

QueenConsort · 12/05/2023 18:06

If his ex wife and new girlfriend say they've both had requested from me I don't thunk I can carry on, I'm leaving the country.

What a nutter, one of them will tell him won't they.

Bluemat · 12/05/2023 18:07

I accepted one from the other woman 😂 hoping she's squirming now

TheFluffiestHobo · 12/05/2023 18:11

QueenConsort · 12/05/2023 18:06

If his ex wife and new girlfriend say they've both had requested from me I don't thunk I can carry on, I'm leaving the country.

What a nutter, one of them will tell him won't they.

Honestly, I wouldn't even worry. It's nothing they probably haven't done themselves!

My ex dh new girlfriend accidentally liked one of my posts on Instagram. I got the notification but when I clicked on it, it disappeared so she must have cancelled it. The only thing I thought was 'oh good, I'm not the only social media stalker out there'.

MrsDoylesDoily · 12/05/2023 18:16

QueenConsort · 12/05/2023 18:05

I also stalked his ex and she got one too! It's just come up. Things just couldn't get any worse.

If it's just come up then the link I posted must be wrong and the glitch hasn't been fixed.

CheezePleeze · 12/05/2023 18:17

Ginandrosemary · 12/05/2023 18:00

Teacher here. Had parent requests! Now checking I don't have anything dodgy in profile pics.

Not a bad thing then if it's made you check that.

YouNeverCanTellWithBees · 12/05/2023 18:18

Argh this explains why I've got two random new fb friends. They are mums from a baby group that I've barely spoken to 🙈

User565394 · 12/05/2023 18:18

I got an alert today telling me xyz accepted my friend request. I just thought I'd invited her by mistake. I hope there's no-one else I've done that with

ohfook · 12/05/2023 18:27

Yeah this is happening to me too.

WhisperingAutistic · 12/05/2023 18:31

Oh god, this is awful
I don't even want to check!
I'm just going to pretend it's not happening 🙈