Is sending friend requests to people you don't know on Facebook harassment?

by Goducks5 Posted 2012/08/14 19:36:57

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According to Facebook, it is.

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Close Friend Of Elvis 2012/08/21 04:20:52

No

Facebook Owners Harrass Us!

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stevegtexas@aol.com 2012/08/16 19:17:51

Undecided

Heres the crap i get from facebook DAILY. FACEBOOK.COM
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rknothead 2012/08/15 17:59:16

No

It's simply a request, you don't have to say yes, you can say no.

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Carlos benoit 2012/08/15 13:45:56

Undecided

Don't know.

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endthefed.soundmoney 2012/08/15 07:23:37

Undecided

don`t know

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Me 2012/08/15 03:17:49

Undecided

i dont know

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PandoraBoxe 2012/08/15 02:59:39

Undecided

think it depends on how many times you bug them *grins*

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sunshinelolloiepops 2012/08/15 01:54:18

Yes

Absoloutly, why would you even do that???????? It's just a pain in the arse!

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DP 2012/08/15 00:50:57

No

I'm friends with random Indonesians, so I don't think so...

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fayssalkas 2012/08/15 00:16:25

No

Generally not, except in some cases when a person is disturbed by you, or that he does not love you,
I hope .... you get the love from all who you ask his friendship, lol .

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hasher 2012/08/14 23:50:45

No

no different than requesting to be someones friend here on sh. they can refuse or okit.

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hasher to hasher 2012/08/14 23:51:15

but i dont do that.

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Nu Joisey 2012/08/14 23:14:23 (edited)

Undecided

I personally don't send friend requests to any strangers on Facebook but I have accepted select requests from strangers if they either send an explanation as to why they are sending the request, or I can see enough on the profile information visible to strangers that we have things in common. I've had good results with that, but on the other hand I've also rejected a few requests that don't conform.

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rocat 2012/08/14 23:02:12

No

repeated requests...
would be harassment-

a couple years ago...
as an experiment...
i sent out 25 friend requests...
to guys who shared my first and last name-

several replied and accepted-
a couple were rude asses about it-

one guy in wales...
i still chat with regularly-
we have become pretty good friends-
as much as is possible solely online-

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Sister Jean 2012/08/14 22:35:47

Undecided

drives me nuts

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rhirhi 2012/08/14 22:11:11

No

i send freind request to people i dont know all the time but i have been blocked for sending them for 30 days

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John Hall 2012/08/14 22:10:45

Undecided

Why would you send a friends request to someone you don't know .

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reyrdeskully 2012/08/14 22:07:41

No

not really

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WhereIsAmerica? ~PWCM~JLA 2012/08/14 22:05:11

No

People who play games on there do it all the time.

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Glitchie 2012/08/14 22:04:52

Undecided

It can be if you don't have anything in common, like a group. If its just for games and someone doesn't play games anymore, then I'd say yes.

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becky.kuntz1 2012/08/14 22:03:22

Undecided

I only send friend requests to people I know, so I would not do this. However I am not sure if this would be considered harassment!

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Fran-Halen 2012/08/14 21:53:53

Yes

Apparently, it is in the eyes of FB.

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heirsoftheking 2012/08/14 20:58:01

No

I love making all kinds of new friends. Once in a while I get one that's argumentative or sends me too many game requests - I remove them.

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~Adrien~ 2012/08/14 20:44:53

No

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I don't think it is, they can always say no. . .

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Merlin 2012/08/14 20:44:31

No

+1
It's not that hard to click "Delete request" and besides, you can click that you don't know the person and they can't ever send you a request again. Problem solved, butthurt people.

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Gordy 2012/08/14 20:33:50

Undecided

Nope not if you need neighbors for games.

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☆Katharina☆ 2012/08/14 20:22:43

No

+1
the only expection is, is if you keep doing it

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rcardon 2012/08/14 20:21:28

No

+1
If they ask you to stop, and you continue, then it's harassment, by any definition.

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Tim Upham 2012/08/14 20:15:37

No

+1
It might be an interesting person I can related to.

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Red Pixy 2012/08/14 20:00:33

No

+1
of course it's not! at least you get to know some new people.

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Burning Bright Embers 2012/08/14 19:59:10

No

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Facebook is getting extremely strange. They have locked me out of my account and won't answer my emails. Just because I tried to log in on a different computer. They have a lot of law suits going on.

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India 2012/08/14 19:54:37

No

+1
maybe it's to meet new people

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BOUNTYQUEEN 2012/08/14 19:52:52

Undecided

+1
Depends on your own maturity level.

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Cricket 2012/08/14 19:50:11

Undecided

+1
I quit FB months ago; let Big Brother glean info about me in other ways. Plus, I had nearly 5,000 "friends," most of whom I knew not of. I interacted with maybe 50 of those "friends."

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Seonag 2012/08/14 19:49:52

Undecided

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Facebook says it is harassment and in some cases it might be. That's why, when I was playing Mafia Wars, etc. on FB and needed more players, I always made sure they were a player AND said so in my friend request. Never had a problem getting players; but I did get a warning and blocked from sending a friend request for 72 hours, when I tried to contact someone who might have been a college classmate. Apparently they weren't because I found them later on another website and they didn't have FB page.

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Jana~ una chica loca 2012/08/14 19:48:00

Undecided

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I don't think so, I mean I added some people I didn't know n we became friends :D

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Lina Al-alami 2012/08/14 19:47:49

Undecided

+1
naa..not always
sometimes i like to add ppl i don't know on facebook
but i like to add ppl from so far countries ..and i don't like to add ppl i don't know from ma country :)...i don't know y !!

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iki 2012/08/14 19:45:42

No

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i think it just means that you want to get to know the person xp

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vegan 2012/08/14 19:41:23

No

+1
How are you gonna meet new people??

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Goducks5 to vegan 2012/08/14 19:46:39

+1
Well I think the purpose of a social networking site should be to meet new people. Why do I need it to talk to people I already know? I have a phone for that.

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