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What’s all this about Facebook sending a friend request to anyone whose profile you’ve viewed?!

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fbnono · 12/05/2023 21:22

I am the worst for looking up people on Facebook and have done so several times in the last 48hrs. Just heard there was a glitch where Facebook was firing friend requests to anyone’s profile who you’ve visited! Can anyone confirm if this has happened to them before I panic?! 😂

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Stratusinium · 12/05/2023 22:29

I looked up an old colleague today or yesterday (can’t quite remember which) and no friend request has been sent.

wow just thinking of how badly this could have gone… a new client, ex bf’s new gf, someone I shagged in 2006 😂😂😂

Thanking my lucky stars right now I took a week off from snooping on Facebook 😂😂😂

FoxCorner · 12/05/2023 22:30

I noticed this today. I looked at a few profiles and it sent friend requests to all of them, which I then retracted

Jamhamlamb · 12/05/2023 22:30

I did try and warn everyone as soonas I spotted it today! 😆
I'm a terrible stalker, it's part of my job, I've had a shambles of a day 🥸

Ifulikepinacoladas · 12/05/2023 22:31

Oh my god this wld explain the random weirdo who accepted my friend request. I viewed his video of an almighty situation in Tescos carpark in Bermondsey 😆One car ramming others, and loads of people getting involved. It was epic. But I was baffled that I was then friends with this guy...I did unfriend immediately.

jkld · 12/05/2023 22:32

If I haven't got any friend requests in my activity log have I gotten away with it?! (I was on a desktop today if that makes a difference?!)

I had 3 requests but only one of them persists in my notifications, the others have disappeared.

Jellykat · 12/05/2023 22:33

I'm not on FB, but if i was i'd have been in trouble!!.. i google all sorts of exes etc when i'm bored.

Ifulikepinacoladas · 12/05/2023 22:33

And thank god I didn't have a look at MILs profile...we haven't spoken since 2019😂

Stratusinium · 12/05/2023 22:34

Jellykat · 12/05/2023 22:33

I'm not on FB, but if i was i'd have been in trouble!!.. i google all sorts of exes etc when i'm bored.

Glad it’s not just me 😂😂 Just check they’re ok etc, are they still fit? 🤣🤣

Sunflowers80 · 12/05/2023 22:35

Goodness I'm not the only one who loves stalks 🤣I've checked act8vity log, friends requested and nothing today. Testing on people I'm not bothered about but stalk my my ex from 1994 when were teenagers just to how he was 🤣luckily I hope I'm OK. I don't dare click again

ShinyPikachu · 12/05/2023 22:36

I just went to check and I didn't have any random friend requests from today but I had one from a couple of weeks ago when I'd been at a funeral. I'm guessing I knocked my phone in my bag and it added someone on the "people you may know" section. Blush

Thepeopleversuswork · 12/05/2023 22:38

God this makes me absolutely cringe. My facebook use has really declined in the past year or so and I often go days without looking at it but 4/5 years ago when I was doing OD this would have been world series embarrassment for me.

lap90 · 12/05/2023 22:39

Blimey, the Facebook Gawds must be on my side because for once i was not snooping

Stratusinium · 12/05/2023 22:39

Hellocatshome · 12/05/2023 21:36

Thats how its supposed to work. Today there was a glitch and actual friend requests were sent.

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Even that’s bad enough! I was fucking horrified when I realised that is a thing 😣😩🙄 why?!?!

Newmum110 · 12/05/2023 22:40

This is the worst thing I have ever heard off, serious heart palpation thinking about all the stalking I do......

SecretSwirrel · 12/05/2023 22:40

Well clearly no ones been looking at my profile because I have no friends requests 😆

MrFlobby · 12/05/2023 22:41

Another thing is that Facebook unfriends people without them knowing.

If you have been unfriended, the person might not know.

I noticed it this week and asked the person if they had unfriended me. I knew they hadn't. They said it happened to them a few times, that Facebook unfriended people and they did not know.

Haha yeah alright 🤥

Realityisreal · 12/05/2023 22:43

You've put my mind at rest, I thought it was something I'd done wrong when I got a friend request from a stranger!

Stratusinium · 12/05/2023 22:44

MrFlobby · 12/05/2023 22:41

Another thing is that Facebook unfriends people without them knowing.

If you have been unfriended, the person might not know.

I noticed it this week and asked the person if they had unfriended me. I knew they hadn't. They said it happened to them a few times, that Facebook unfriended people and they did not know.

Haha yeah alright 🤥

Huh?

OMG12 · 12/05/2023 22:45

yep I got a random friend request off a friend of a friend I’m sure didn’t mean to send me one shortly after I liked one of my friends posts😂 I’ve politely ignored

Mooshamoo · 12/05/2023 22:46

Did this really happen

ManfredMan · 12/05/2023 22:46

Newmum110 · 12/05/2023 22:40

This is the worst thing I have ever heard off, serious heart palpation thinking about all the stalking I do......

Who do you stalk out of interest?

BillyNoM8s · 12/05/2023 22:47

It definitely happened. Sent me into the blindest of panics. But it also happened with friends of friends whose profiles I hadn't clicked on? Facebook literally went rogue. Mortifying and the absolute worst fuck up and social media site can have.

Greycloudlooming · 12/05/2023 22:49

Oh wow! I got some random friend requests today so I guess that’s why!

Thank…fuck….I….didn’t….stalk….anyone….today!!!!!

megletthesecond · 12/05/2023 22:50

No one has been stalking me and I've not sent any requests either. Meh.

SemperIdem · 12/05/2023 22:50

My stalking habit was not blighted by this terrible glitch, thank god!

I saw a pp saw it only effected Android phones though, is that right?

I will cling on to my iPhone until the day I die if so 😂

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