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bluebellforest · 01/01/2016 00:40

Someone I know vaguely from school has just accepted a friend request from me. Only thing is, I didn't send her a friend request.
This has happened once before with a school mum.
How does this happen? Do I keep her, let her know, I didn't request her as a friend, or just delete her? Help Confused

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PegsPigs · 01/01/2016 00:42

I seem to have accidentally friend requested someone I worked with for about 5 weeks 5 years ago! I think it's accidentally clicking on the 'people you may know' adverts. Just need to be more vigilant I guess.

PegsPigs · 01/01/2016 00:44

I put him on Limited Profile list so he couldn't see anything then quietly unfriended him a few weeks later.

bluebellforest · 01/01/2016 00:44

Thing is, I've never seen her on the people you may know list and never clicked on her profile before?

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bluebellforest · 01/01/2016 00:46

She was a year above me at school and to be honest, i'd forgotten all about her. I left school (ahem) 25 years ago.

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TheWitTank · 01/01/2016 00:50

That's happened to me too a couple of times. I presumed I had just accidentally clicked on request while scrolling through?

Mmmmcake123 · 01/01/2016 00:54

If you access fb through your mobile it's very easy to friend request unintentionally whilst you are scrolling.
Could someone else be logging in as you? Just asking

Concerned97 · 01/01/2016 00:55

Oh my word, that's just happened to me! I've apparently asked a mutual friend I have met once to be my friend! I can't believe he accepted me, as I say met him once in a family rounders game, he's young enough to be my son and probably thinks I'm mad! I don't know how to unravel it all GrinGrin

corlette · 01/01/2016 01:04

I was accepted as a friend by DD's old childcare centre manager after apparently sending her a friend request!
We have no mutual friends, the centre isn't on Facebook, I didn't even know her surname so there's no chance of me looking her up even if I wanted to.
All I can think of is we were both tagged in the same place or building and something happened from there. Don't ask me what or how though.

bluebellforest · 01/01/2016 01:15

Isn't it strange.

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MagpieCursedTea · 01/01/2016 01:29

The same thing just happened to me! It was someone that I don't think I know but we had 9 mutual friends in the town I grew up in. I must've clicked something by accident, no idea why he accepted it!

FlangelaLansbury · 01/01/2016 01:36

I just noticed a pending request I apparently made to someone I've never even heard of. We have a mutual friend but I've no idea who this person is.

What are you up to, Facebook?

nocabbageinmyeye · 01/01/2016 01:39

Oh God I did this to my ex boyfriends now wife. We used to be a very good friends when my ex and I were together. We split up after I didn't cope well with my mc and I finished it, they got together soon after and she stopped speaking to me. I accidentally requested her on those stupid "people you may know" things, she accepted and then I deleted her straight away so now she gets to think I'm a crazy stalker type person when I'm not, very annoying!!

DontOpenDeadInside · 01/01/2016 08:11

Now I'm paranoid. I never get friends requests as my account is locked down. But I got one from an old school friend the other day, which I accepted (nosey) now I'm wondering if she really did add me Confused

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