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How To Stop Message Requests On Facebook

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How To Stop Message Requests On Facebook
How To Stop Message Requests On Facebook
Block Messages, Friend Requests from Strangers on Facebook

One of my female friends decided against using her personal photo as her Facebook display picture. Instead, she used some abstract images to fill up the space. When I asked her the reason behind it, she told me that whenever she puts up her personal profile pic her Facebook account is flooded with friend requests and messages from complete strangers. Needless to say she’s a pretty girl.

This wasn’t a one-off case. When I asked some of my other friends (girls) if they faced a similar problem, most of them told me that they are fed up with guys stalking them on Facebook.

I did some research on Facebook privacy settings and discovered a feature in Facebook that could help my friends. This particular Facebook feature does not hide our profile from complete strangers but restricts their intrusion to a bare minimum. Read on to know how to implement these restrictions.
Blocking Strangers on Facebook

Step 1: Log in to your Facebook account and open Privacy Settings from the drop-down menu in the top-right corner of the screen.

Step 2: In Privacy Settings, look for the option How you connect and click on the link Edit Settings. Here you can control how you connect with people on Facebook.

Step 3: If you don’t want people to find you using your name, email address and phone number change the Who can look you up using the email address or phone number you provided? to friends of friends. If the friends request and Facebook messages are bugging you, change Who can send you friend requests? and Who can send you Facebook messages? to friends of friends.

You can also go ahead and select only friends but then your profile will be too restricted and not even a mutual friend of a friend will be able to send you friend requests.

Finally save the settings and make the changes permanent. From now on, you can put any display pic you would like without the concern of strangers sending your spam messages and requests.

Note: Recently Facebook has made mandatory that the profile picture of each user should be public but that shouldn’t be too much of a concern if you have the above privacy settings in place.
Conclusion

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While Facebook has had its share of troubles with privacy and has drawn flak for its lackluster handling of such issues, it has brought about many changes and new features that help a user filter access and data intelligently. It’s just a matter of knowing them and using them.

Most of my female friends have changed their Facebook privacy settings and they thank me for making their Facebook account clean and spam free. Hopefully this should help you too.

Facebook All Request Cancel

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Facebook All Request Cancel
Facebook All Request Cancel
How To Cancel All Pending Friends Requests at Once on Facebook
Facebook has become an addiction for many but surely it has its own advantages. Facebook has become a popular social networking platform for staying connected with your friends and share seamless information with each other. Still, as per reports, as many as 10 percents of Facebook's accounts are fake.

Many of you may have come across a situation of adding many friends at once and still those requests are pending. Canceling them individually could be a slightly tedious task, but with some of below tricks, you do it at once. Just remember if you add many friends continuously, Facebook may ban your account temporarily or permanently.

Update: June 2016 (Single Click Delete All)

Just go to Facebook.com, Login with your details.

Now go to,
https://m.facebook.com/friends/center/requests/outgoing/#friends_center_main
It will display all your pending sent requests.
Open "Inspect" by Right click on the same page.

Now Go to "console" in top tabs and hit below script.

That's all, all your requests open on that page will be deleted.

(Note: Just ensure to scroll down till all list gets over, this will delete all open requests on the page)

Just close the page, again go to same page after some time, and repeat the process.

Firstly Log on to your FB account before proceeding any of below methods.

Solution 1

Go to privacy option in upper right corner and go to "who can see my stuff?”
Go to User Activity Log.
The activity log is separately available on top of the FB page as well. Expand the left side pane by clicking “More”.

Click on Friends > All incoming and outgoing requests will be displayed in chronological order.
Hover on the tab available in front of person's profile and select the cancel request option.

Solution 2

Go to Account Setting by clicking Gear icon at the top right of your FB page.
In General account setting, click "Download a copy of your Facebook data"
For big file size, FB will display a message as Start My Archive. Click it and FB will confirm an email sent for the downloading archive file.

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After confirming an email click link inside to get download copy. FB will also ask your password to proceed, just confirm it once.

Wait till download completes.

Unzip the file if it is in zip format. There will be three folders and one .htm file.

Open HTML folder and double click on friends (it is .htm file). It will be opened in a browser.

Just go to pending friends requests and all friends requests, removed friends and subscribers will be displayed on the page.

Simply cancel all the pending requests.

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It will display all pending request list. You can individually cancel all pending requests.

Solution 4

If you know the exact friend's name of whom you want to cancel request, just search him with a search box on FB home page and go onto his/her profile. Browse to person's timeline and hover over the friend request sent button and confirm the cancel request button.

Depending upon the number of pending requests, you may find one of the methods above best suitable as per your need. Recently Facebook has blocked a "cancel pending friend requests" app on FB. There are also some Ad-Ons available for Chrome and Firefox browsers. You can search them on their add-on pages. Just to note that if your account has a large number of pending requests, consider your account is not in a healthy state and you immediately need to cancel them.

How To Stop Message Requests On Facebook

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How To Stop Message Requests On Facebook
How To Stop Message Requests On Facebook
Q&A: How can I block strangers from messaging me on Facebook?

Question from Hanna C: I used to have my Facebook settings configured to block people who aren’t my friends from sending me messages, but somehow that has got changed and I’ve started getting messages from people I don’t know.

I can’t figure out how to find that setting anymore. Can you tell me where it is?

Rick’s answer: Hanna, Facebook used to allow you to block messages from non-friends, but no longer. They recently changed it to where anybody can message any other Facebook user, friend or not. The only exception is you can’t send a message to someone that has blocked you.

Depending on your Privacy settings, messages from strangers can now go into a junk mailbox labeled “Other”. While you can no longer block strangers from messaging you directly, you can instruct Facebook to place those unwanted messages in the “Other” folder instead of your Inbox. Here’s how:

1 – Log into your Facebook account.

2 – Click the down arrow that’s located at the right end of the blue bar at the top of the page, then select Settings from the drop-down menu.

3 – Click the Privacy link that’s located in the left-hand column.

4 – Scroll down to the “Who can contact me?” section and click Whose messages do I want filtered into my Inbox?.

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5 – Select the radio button beside Strict Filtering.

That’s all there is to it. From now on most of the messages you receive from people who aren’t on your Friends list will go into the “Other” mailbox. Unfortunately, a few unwanted messages might still make it into your Inbox, but those rogue messages should be few and far between.

I hope this helps Hanna. Good luck!