If you have a Facebook account, it is very likely that on more than one occasion you have come across invitations from people on your Facebook account whom you do not know at all and who are from different parts of the world. If this bothers you and you want to end this type of invitations, then we are going to explain what you should do to stop receiving annoying friend requests.
Before explaining it, you have to know that the reason that other people that you do not know completely and that add you in a massive way, since it is likely that both you and your friends have received the invitation from one or more of these users, is something malicious .
Is bots, not real people, or people who have ends with bad intentions. What they are in charge of is to do an exploration of your contact network and add in bulk to all their friends, or they have explored the network of one of your contacts and for this reason they end up adding you. In this way, they seek to increase the chances that you can accept the request, since you are more likely to do so if you have people in common.
If you have your private list, it is most likely that you have been found through the public list that one of your contacts has and in which you appear.
The intentions of these new strangers who add you are illicit, as they try to steal accounts, steal data or carry out other criminal acts through the network. Cybercriminals with bad intentions are found behind these bots on most occasions and that, therefore, you have to be careful both with the bot and with the links that they may contain on their respective walls, since clicking on it may be a big risk.
The general recommendation for these types of users is remove any request that comes from suspicious and unknown people. However, if the requests that are received are massive and continuous and become a great annoyance, the best option is to follow the steps that we are going to indicate below and that will help you to put a stop to this constant.
How to prevent friend requests from being sent to you
The key in this sense is to protect yourself in the appropriate way through the different security measures that Facebook provides us for all these types of cases. All this can be done in a comfortable and simple way from the configuration menu and the tools that the platform provides us. In any case, we are going to indicate the steps you must follow to do this:
- First of all, what you must do is enter the Facebook application from your smartphone or the social network through the browser and once this is done, go to configuration panel. In it you will have to go to the section of Privacy .
- Once you are in this section related to the privacy of the account, you will find different options that are related to your activity on the social network and from where you can make different adjustments with respect to it when other people can search for you. and get in touch with you through the platform.
- In this sense, you should look at the section «Who can send you friend requests?«, Where you will have to select the option "Friends of friends»To reduce the number of people who can add you, although you should bear in mind that in this case, although only people who are within the circle of friends of your friends can send you requests, it may be the case that some of them already have accepted to that bot and, therefore, can send you the friend request. In any case, although you may continue to receive some friend requests from unknown "people", the reality is that you will see how they are reduced considerably, on all if you were receiving these types of requests with great frequency.
Among the rest of the options that you can find in this section, you should bear in mind that there are other aspects that it is highly recommended that you take a look, such as those related to who can see your friends list, who can find you by email address or phone number or if you allow your Facebook account may appear in the search results when searches are carried out with your name. The ideal is to stop for a moment to configure all these sections, so that privacy and security can be further protected.
Limitation of friend requests
However, excessively restricting the requests that can be received through Facebook can have a drawback, and that is that you will limit yourself when accessing other people, since it may be the case that a person who tries to get in touch I cannot do it with you if you do not know any of our friends and that they are a person that you are really interested in having in your circle of friends on the social network.
In any case, it is very important to take into account the importance of Facebook today to connect with other people and if you have other methods to establish this contact with other people, since there are currently other alternatives, either through from other social networks either through the use of instant messaging applications or simply through more traditional methods such as calling.
In any case, it is advisable to carry out privacy settings on all social networks, so that you can customize the people you are really interested in who can contact you through them, be it Facebook, Instagram... or any other other.