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Facebook blocking friend requests

Sep 1, 2010 11:50PM PDT

Anyone else annoyed by this? Apparently, I can only be friends with people facebook thinks i should be friends with. Usually if I try to add someone who facebook hasn't recommended to me, I get a "Do you know this person? This request can't be sent." box.

It's pretty annoying considering I tried to add one of my myspace friends to facebook and got that error. What's the whole point of this? Facebook is a social network. I kinda think meeting new people and such is the point of the damn service. I don't need it telling me who I can or can't be friends with.

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Facebook Unnecessarily Discouraging Adding (New) Friends
Jun 11, 2011 7:52AM PDT

They deleted my profile yesterday, so I started using my other one to regain lost friends, and now they just penalized me for making friend requests by putting on a 2 day block on contacting or making friends. Where is the common sense, and who is in charge of hiring these stupid people who create these dumb rules, delete accounts then block you from adding friends when you create another profile??

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I have given up on Facebook
Jun 16, 2011 7:33AM PDT

They blocked me about a week ago because I reported a phishing notice (one of many) I got. They said they were locking my account for my safety--and gave me a new page--totally empty. My original page is very active as I receive dozens of emails a day about ongoing activity still. Zynga gave me a new farm and I cannot even see the farms I spent big $$$ on, and cannot see my original FB page either. Their security check to get back your pages is a joke--sends you in circles and doesn't work. I feel like a fool and I am over them totally. I agree that they have staff harassing and tormenting the users. Mona Register jaxkat

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unnecessarily friend request blocked
Jun 27, 2011 9:27PM PDT

i havent yet send any request and m blocked for 14 days unnecessarily

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blockes several times
Aug 19, 2011 5:01PM PDT

i have also been blocked several times for adding people i know. that's very unfair.

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Facebook blocking friend requests
Jun 29, 2011 7:54AM PDT

That hasn't happened to me you might want to wait until Google+ comes out this will fix this mess.

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Facebook blocking friend requests
Aug 8, 2011 7:57PM PDT

Yeah its kinda annoying already.