How to Prevent Strangers from Adding You on Facebook

Are you receiving invitations from completely unknown people through Facebook? Have you started adding users from completely remote sources in the world? Rest assured, today we bring you the solution to stop receiving the annoying friend requests that are occurring lately on the social network.

Why are so many people adding me on Facebook?

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The first thing you need to know is the reason for this massive friendship party. Probably you and your Facebook friends have received the friendship invitation of one or several users on the network, a series of completely unknown people who are usually located in remote places far away from your own country.

They are bots. Or failing that, people with bad intentions. What they do is explore your network of contacts and add in a massive way to each and every person you have as a friend. If you have your friends list public so that anyone can take a look, all your contacts will be added as a friend by the bot, and if you have it private, they will probably find you through a public list of someone who has you as a friend .

The intentions of these new friends are obviously dark, as they seek data theft, account theft and all kinds of intimidation through the networks. The general recommendation is to ignore and eliminate all kinds of requests from people who may seem suspicious and do not ring a bell. But if requests start coming in bulk, there is a way to curb them.

How to avoid friend requests

The key is to shield our account with security measures that fit your needs. All this can be configured in the configuration menu and tools of Facebook, so we are going to tell you how to do it so that you can complete the process.

  • The first thing you will have to do is enter the configuration panel and access the Privacy section .
  • In this section you can find various options related to your activity, but you can also adjust the privacy levels when someone can find you and contact you.

  • In the question “Who can send you friend requests?” Select “Friends of friends” to reduce the number of people who can add you. This way you can only send requests to people who are within the circle of friends of your own friends.

Among the other options we can find some as interesting as Who can see your friends list, who can search for you using your email address or your phone number and, probably the most important, if you allow your Facebook account to appear in the Search engine results when searching with your name.

What problem can we run into if we limit friend requests?

The problem that we may run into is obvious, since, by limiting ourselves to such limited circles, someone who is really trying to contact us and does not know any of our friends will not be able to add us as a friend at any time.

In any case, you must be very clear to what extent Facebook is an important contact channel in your life. And, if someone has to contact you to offer you a job, it is normal for them to use LinkedIn, and if someone has something very important to tell you, that person is probably close and has other means to notify you of it. Remember, you have to use social networks with your head.