What to do when you get facebook friend request from someone you don't know?

Check to see if you have any mutual friends. If not then just deny them or ask them why they want to have you add them.

If someone sends me a friend request and I don't know who they are and if it doesn't say that we have mutual friends then I will deny the request. I think you can send them a message to see why they want to be friends with you.

Hi lumenmom, I definitely will deny the request from unknown person. It’s unsafe to accept someone whom we don’t know as friend. There are so many culprits having malicious intention hanging around in the web hunting for prey to make their income or other purposes. Most of them are skillful in stealing information from others profiles. So it’s wise for us to have intense vigilance not to let such person to have the opportunity to take his advantage from us. When making a friend request, one should know we have the right to accept or not to accept his request. So he has to respect the decision of the opposite party. Happy posting and take care!

What you should do is check their friend's list and see if you have any mutual friends and perhaps you may find your answer there? I have a friend who had a bad experience on facebook from her boyfriend's exgirlfriend. This exgirlfriend made a fake profile and my friend added her and she ended up finding out a bunch of information out that she didn't want her to know. She couldn't understand how the ex knew and she put two and two together. Good luck

You can message them and find out i think, before accepting the invite. I never accept invites from people i dont know unless they are friends with a friend of mine and i know of them already. I have an invite from someone who ive never even heard of and i just ignore it or i might deny it

I think you are so sensitive.Becasue if someone want to be your friend,he/shi must want to be.And if someone who I don't know,I will accepted,and I will give them a huge "thank you!" for their request.I will never deny anyone,because if I did ,I will hurt them. So,welcome for anyone who want to be friend with me!

I do not accept this. I am orkut member from long. I have bad experience with unknown friends. I accepted and then they started disturbing in many way.

i always accept. but then immediatly, post on there wall something along the lines of 'heyy, thanks for the add. but do i know you?'

He does not like to give up, like no the play, and do not like to give up, do what he want to do.

When someone sends me friend request from person i don't know, i usually reject the friend request..i don't like adding people whom i don't know personally..cause you know, they might steal your personal information and sell it to third party applications.. better safe than sorry..

i just add them

No, you can't ask before you be friends with him. I do quiet much on facebook because all my elementary and high school friends are there. I often get a friend request from people i don't know and I deny them. it's okay if you don't feel comfortable. Once you approve them, their post will be there in your homepage too. I don't like being close with people i don't really know in facebook, because I have many photos there and they will have full access to it if accpet them. If your purpose join facebook is to promote something then accept him..but if you just want it to be fill by family or friends, better deny him. He won't be angry and eventhough he angry, he doesn't have any access to you. It's common thing to deny someone that we don't know much. It's facebook and not mylot..

You can ask the person questions as soon as he sends you a request. When he sends you a request you will be able to either see his full profile (if he has it set to public) or you can see his profile up to a limit (if he changed some of his settings). You can automatically send him a message privately and ask him anything before you add him. That's what I usually do.

I just add them and try to figure where I know them. If I dont know who they are, they probably are looking for some benefits or then there has been some mistake of people with the same name as you do. Or then you just don't remember where or when have you met or do you even know them. You can just sent message after you have added him or her. And if you deny it, they cant see that you have denied it. It's just that you haven't added them and its waiting for acception.

You could message them from your account and ask who is that and why they want to have friendship with you. There are lot people in facebook who just randomly select the user and try to send friend request to strangers. I still don know what is their point. So beware.

I dont accept all friend requests because alot of peope on facebook I really have nothing in common with although we may have one mutual friend in common. Two of the friends I have on there are people that I havent seen for years anyway, sot it is strange enough just having them on my friends list.

If I dont know the person and we have no friends in common I usually deny it. But you can also leave it as a pending friend request and not do anything with it.

normally i will just accept anyone that add me in facebook. I won't talk to them though, just accept them for...fun? hahahaha. However i will reply if they talk to me first ;P

You could message the person and ask them who it is. Not that difficult, right?

when someone i don not know send me a friend request dont hava mutual friends, dont know anything about him i deny him be cause he can be someone who wants to kidnap me.