friend request in facebook.com
By yonkie
@yonkie (440)
Philippines
May 18, 2009 6:30am CST
I am a user of facebook.com. I have this friend in high school, she is also a classmate of mine. She is also a facebook.com user. I made a friend request to her. She approved it. Weeks after her approval, I checked on my friends list in facebook. I noticed that she deleted me as her friends. I really doubted why. We don't have any misunderstanding. We are not on a war. I did not quarrel her. I made another friend request to her. Until now, it's been two months that she did not approve it. I ask someone who knows her. They are friends in facebook and he even mentioned that such friend is always updating her profile. I am really wondering why. If you are on my shoes, what do you think is wrong?
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22 responses
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
18 May 09
It's always possible she did it by accident. It's also possible that she doesn't want you to see something that she posts on Facebook. This is the biggest problem with Facebook, how close are the people on your friends list and how much do you want to share? Some people have hundreds of friends, but really, do you know hundreds of people you want to tell a lot of personal information to?
If she doesn't add you as friend again, then just realize that she's not a true friend and you don't need people who aren't your real friends in your life.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
18 May 09
Exactly. Chances are you aren't that close anyway, and maybe she has cleaned out her list. For all you know, she may have deleted a lot of acquaintances. We can't expect everyone to be as friendly as we are, and if she doesn't want your friendship, she is obviously not the person you want as a friend anyway.
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@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
18 May 09
Did you and her talk after she approved your friend request the first time? Maybe she figured since you weren't talking to each other regularly that there was no point in having you on her friends list. I would have the friend that knows her send her a message and ask her why she deleted you.
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@thanusha85 (532)
• Malaysia
18 May 09
I agree to this. Possibly it was because you did not acknowledge him on your friendster. Maybe you can try messaging him and try to get in touch back if you think he is a friend worth to be.Its no harm
Thanusha
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@rachababy09 (3)
• United States
19 May 09
yeah I really would not worry about it!! Their a several ppl that i went to school with that talk to me on myspace but didn't recongnize me on facebook. It could be simple maybe she did not realize that it was you!! Just send another request and put a comment that might suggest a time you all were around each other. Odds are she will accept your request and as long as u communicated with her on a regular, she'll probably keep you. If she don't then I really would not worry about it, people change throughout thier lifetime and this person may now be someone that you don't wanna be friends with. Either way it can be a win, win situation for you!!
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@grecychunny26 (9483)
• Philippines
19 May 09
It happened to me too but that is on my account in Friendster. A classmate of mine way back in elementary was on my friends list on friendster. Actually we are texting but not regularly, but I assumed we are back as friends because we are exchanging messages. After quite some time when I checked on my list she was no longer on it. I still remember her friendster account so when I found it I instantly send an invitation. After a several months she is still not accepting my invites. I don't know what's her problem though, so I guess for you and for me this is my idea. Forget about them, who cares if they will accept us on the list or not, we can still breathe a fresh air. I really don't care now, I just move on. And you, move on too, don't waste your quality time on her, there are much more worthy person outhere to waste time.
@killua22 (5)
• China
19 May 09
i think it's because you didn't contact to her right after her approved you.so she might thought you do not really want to make a friend again.now if i were you, i will send another friend request to her and write down some information about me and her.something that you use to get thought together , if you have ^^,after she saw this message, i have no doubt she'll contact to you immediately.Good Luck~
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@Yori88 (1465)
• Philippines
19 May 09
I think your classmate does not want you to be her friend. Maybe she just don't want you for reasons known only by her. She may have some secret that has something to do with you. I can't think of any other reason but only those things. Because if she is updating her profile and not accepting your friend request then there is something fishy happening. Better send her a message and asked why. But in my case if someone does not want to be my friend even if we were classmates before then I do not care. I have nothing to lose.
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@pickoy (733)
• Philippines
19 May 09
I'm not really sure, coz I also have a friend who I try to keep in touch with but she doesn't reply. I just assumed she's too busy and preoccupied with her other friends. But it hurts right? You don't even know what to think if she's mad at you or what and when you directly confront her she'll just deny it and make excuses. I don't do that to any friend but there are really people you can't understand. I just let it be, but everytime I saw her online I always make sure to say hi, regardless if she replies or she pretends that she can't see me. Even if you ask her, she'll make sure she's not mad or there's nothing wrong eventhough you feel that its really unhealthy to have friendships like that in people...
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@youless (112497)
• Guangzhou, China
18 May 09
I don't think it's suitable to delete a friend who you really know, especially you were friends in high school. Let me tell you a story. Some time ago my college friend contacted me in MSN and I was glad to it. He was also interested in knowning other classmates' MSN address so that we can keep in touch. I gave him the friends who are in my MSN list. But one friend didn't accept to his request yet. I contacted this one and asked her why. She said she almost forgot who he was but it seemed that she didn't want to add him anyway. I have to say that sometimes some people who don't pay attention to the old friends. I am disappointed to it. And I had to tell my friend that perhaps she was "busy" so that she didn't login MSN to accept his friend's request.
I love China
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@modstar (9605)
• Philippines
18 May 09
Well based from my experience in Friendster. I added someone who sent me an invitation but deleted her after few days or weeks, i can't remember. The reason, well i really don't want her on my list so to make it appear that there's nothing wrong, i accepted her but already had the plan to delete her because, maybe she wouldn't know that deleted her. Maybe that's also what's on her mind on why she deleted you. Maybe all of the people on her list are the ones who are close to her. Maybe she's just hates to decline outright.
@jellymonty (2352)
•
18 May 09
I really wouldn't worry if she deleted you. If she doesnt want you as your friend then there's nothing you can do about it. You cant force somebody to be your friend so dont beat yourself up because of this. If you really want to know why she deleted you why don't you just ask her? But seriously there more issues in your life to worry about than somebody deleting you on facebook!
I usually only accept friend request from people I know very well. If I'm not very close to you I most likely won't accept your request. Maybe she doesn't really know you very well so don't take it too personally.
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@Jennlk84 (4206)
• United States
18 May 09
I guess it is really hard to say exactly what happened. Did you have a chance to talk to her while you were "friends" on Facebook? Maybe she was cleaning up her friends list and only had real close friends on there? There are multiple possibilities. All you can really do though is wait. Unless you have another way of contacting her and asking her if something is wrong.
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@soulsearchin (81)
• Canada
18 May 09
How long ago were you classmates? Depending on how long ago it was maybe she feels you dont have much in common with her anymore. She accepted you looked at your facebook to see what your up to nowdays and figured you both have grown apart.
Who knows why people do what they do I dont sweat the small stuff like that and dont take it personally like alot of people do its her loss because you seem like a good person just curious to see how an old friend is doing.
@jayrene (2708)
• Philippines
18 May 09
maybe she's not interested in your friendship anymore as it was a very long time ago... and she doesn't feel like your friends anymore... it happens you know...
if i am in your shoes, i will not bother anymore with her, if she's not responding my email, or not adding me, then fine... there are still a lot of people there to make friends with.
this is one reason why i very very seldom add friends, even if they are my high school or college classmates... what i do is i comment first on their page, and just waits what will happen. if i dont get a reply or no invite from them, then i moved on... same thing with relatives... i dont send invites, i just wait for them to invite me...
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@ccarabuena (442)
• Cebu, Philippines
19 May 09
Don't mind her...you can still make friends without her right?
And don't get affected..people tend to forget who their friends are...
Make new friends then or to make you feel better send her an email why she deleted
you in her friendslist..can i add you in facebook?
my email is : charisfe_carabuena@yahoo.com.ph
ehehehe ^_^
@harryt123 (327)
• United States
18 May 09
That actually sounds pretty odd in my opinion and I haven't had that happen to myself. But if you have someone that is a friend of yours and a classmate then I don't see why they would have accepted you and not spoke to you and went ahead and deleted you as their friend. I would personally talk to her and see what has made her do so. There has to be a good explanation to this honestly and I am sure that when you do find one it will make a little bit more sense. Please keep us updated if you do find something out. =)
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@jillbeth (2705)
• United States
18 May 09
It could be that she just had a lot of friends and deleted those who she didn't hear from very often. If that's not the case and it really bothers you, I would just ask her why she deleted you. You may have done something unintentionally that she found offensive. It might help you with future friends if you knew what that might be.
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@csrobins (1120)
• United States
22 May 09
Hmm, Why don't you ask her why she deleted you? Or ask her after you send another request out to be friends and if she accepts maybe it was a mistake and if she declines maybe you should ask her why. Or you should just not worry about it-it's just facebook, do you see her often in person and have reason to be alarmed that she may be mad at you?
@sblossom (2168)
•
18 May 09
there must be a reason for her to do like that to you.
if i were you I would ignore it. Time will resolve it.
if she's very important in your life you must have time to see her in person someday, then you ask her.
If she's not so important, so let her go.
you will have new friend in your life.
@tracy_d (76)
• India
18 May 09
I suppose she wouldnt want people (read "someone" ) to see that you are her friend and/or you keep in touch. Could it be? Maybe your friendship was causing some misunderstanding between her and someone, so she preferred to delete you. Or maybe she didnt want you to see some pictures/posts in her account. I dont think you are wrong anywhere.
@csrthacker (48)
• United States
19 May 09
You really shouldn't feel too discouraged or insulted. People spring clean their friends lists all the time. She probably just felt that there wasn't enough interaction betwwen the two of you on facebook to keep you on there. If she isn't returning your emails (make sure she knows they are from you), then it's her loss.
@kar023 (1)
• United States
31 May 09
Same thing happend to me. My brothers friend and me joke around and pull jokes on eachother all the time and he is a facebook user and so am I..he approved of me as a friend but then deleted me and I dont know how to send him another friend request we never argue at all we pull silly jokes on eachother but nothing hurtful or rude.............and sorry to say I cant help you out woth that problem with your friend