stupid facebook

United States
January 11, 2012 6:59pm CST
Today i logged in one of my 2 facebooks to find a message there from facebook saying that they have a rule about sending friend request to people i dont know. i had the option of canceling my pending friend requests or to save them and i chose to save them because i like meeting new people all over the world. so, my consequence was being blocked from my inbox, chat, and adding new people. the only thing i am allowed to do is look at my wall and reply to people that way. so, i retreated to my first facebook and am contacting people there. i love people, i am a people person. y does facebook have to be so difficult and stupid sometimes? if we r not allowed to add people we dont know then how the heck r we supposed to make more friends? i don't understand this will somone please explain this to me?
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@runi1024 (126)
• United States
12 Jan 12
You have to keep in mind that Facebook is not myspace. From their eyes it looks like your using it like a MySpace, and those kinds of activities are what caused MySpace so many problems and started giving them a bad name. I only friend people I know or my friends say I should contact. You have to be aware that there are some crazy people out there.
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@inedible (768)
• Singapore
12 Jan 12
You're not. You're not supposed to make new friends on Facebook. Facebook wants to be a tool to connect with old friends, not new people. That, and I think they have security concerns. You might have heard of scammers using Facebook to fish for personal information, or paedophiles stalking Facebook for photos. Or stuff like that. So, yeah. They care more about not getting into trouble than about letting you make new friends.
• United States
12 Jan 12
True. I have heard about this, but I think we should be able to make new friends because sometimes old friends get boring because they moved on to college, or to a new job, or they just don't talk to you any more. I mean I love my friends, but I crave adventure and new friends. So, that's why I was a little disappointed to see this message.
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
15 Jan 12
You could always make friends elsewhere before adding them on Visagetome. Like here, for example. Lots of nice-ish people around here, ya? :D
@veronizm (907)
• Philippines
15 Jan 12
Hi babygirl, I guess they do it for security purposes and also to prevent spam. Facebook is for communicating people from all over the world but they've also set some limitations on it in order to prevent some people from spamming. But I think the blocking thing was just temporary. I've tried it before when I was still new to Facebook. I kept adding some friends continuously in just about a few minutes and as a consequence I got blocked from adding new people. But it was only for about a few hours, or I think it was for about a day, I can't really remember, but I was able to add friends again when the blocking thing expired. Maybe you should try opening your second account again to see if you can already add new people again.
@kundanraj (660)
• India
12 Jan 12
I don't got fully what you trying to says as all the things you are quite messy. You can send friends request to any person on facebook if they allow other person to find them and sent them freinds reuest. You are only unable to to sent those people who are set in thier seeting that only few of them can sent them friend request. Facebook will work according to user setting so i think you would have faced diffrent problem which you didn't clearify here. If you get new friend request you have chances of either exept them or reject them or you can press not now to not accept them later. This will not do anything with the way you communicate with them. Even then you can send them message if they have not blocked you. Your facebook have diffrent problem. If you tell properly than i can help you with whatever i know.
• United States
12 Jan 12
Oh, ok. Sorry about that. I logged into Facebook today to find a message from Facebook telling me that I am not allowed to send friend requests to people I do not personally know. The message told me that Facebook is only for contacting people we know, friends, family, co-workers, etc. I was given the option to cancel my pending friend requests to people I don't know, or to save them and continue, but I would have my Facebook blocked. So, I saved them and moved on and finally got to my profile. I was on their talking to a few people, and all of a sudden I could not view my inbox nor could I talk with people in chat. I like making new friends even if they are from a different country. I hope this is clearer for you now :).
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
12 Jan 12
I've heard that if you sent so much friend requests to people and most of them didn't even accepted your friendship may actually stop you for a little while to send more friend request. I think that is because they are trying to stop spamming and people who pretends to be someone to scam people. I have not heard about facebook blocking someone from their inbox and chat 'though. It might be temporary only and you may gain back the access again. Just try to be careful coz not everyone on Facebook wants to add people they don't know.
• United States
12 Jan 12
Thank you I will be careful. I only add people if they are mutual friends with one of my friends. Sometimes a friend will suggest someone to me, sometimes I will add them, sometimes I won't and I will ignore the friend request. If a friend request is being sent to me, I always look at their profile and if I like what I see then I will add them, but if I don't like what I see then I will not add them at all or I will report them if they have inappropriate images on their profile. As for being blocked from chat and inbox it is possible my friend and my mother both experienced this before I did, so it should only be two days that I won't have these things.
@arjunm (439)
• India
12 Jan 12
its not stupidity.. its a alert which help us from the hackers
• United States
16 Jan 12
OK I see what you are saying, good point :)
@adhyz82 (36249)
• Indonesia
12 Jan 12
i think you must understand the rule of facebook with 500 million user and member, it`s not easy for managing that member.. so they must save their treasurers (of course their member) from any spamming or anything that make many of their users is not comfort and leave facebook.. so you must understand that the best way from facebook for protecting any their member from any unknown people
@boyuancy (1708)
• India
12 Jan 12
Sending friend requests to unknown people is considered spamming by Facebook. I also joined Facebook in hopes of befriending new people but that is not possible. But the good thing is, they will block this first for 2 days, 4 days, a week, 15 days, and ultimately, a month. That's the last thing they will do. They can't do anything more than that. The worst thing that can happen to your account is that it will be blocked and will be rendered unusable. If you are good enough with it, then let nothing stop you from sending requests to unknown people. That's why myLot is my Facebook. I can send requests to anyone here.