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You were looking at the Facebook profile of that sweet girl in your class and you by mistake sent her a request, whereas you didn’t want to do something like this and wanted to show as if you had no interest in her! Worried, how to cancel the request?? Oh, Poor you!
There’s another point to it. If you send someone a request, they can access your profile for an indefinite period without confirming it. So it can be a privacy issue too.
If you are some unlucky chap facing such a situation, then no need to worry. There’s a solution for you to cancel
the friend request you’ve just sent.
Well actually Facebook does not allow you to revoke a friend request. If you go by the rules, the other person
first has to accept your request and then only can you delete him/her from your profile.
But there’s a way out and all you have to do is play with your privacy settings. Follow these steps:
1. After you’ve sent the friend request, go to Setting > Privacy Settings.
2. Add that person to you ‘Block List‘. This will break the friend request.
3. Then again unblock him/her.
Now visit that person’s profile. Magic! It shows that good old ‘Add as Friend’.
dj
February 1st, 2010 at 3:47 am
thanks so much for this!!!! life-saver!!!!
Lucy
April 13th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
thank you sooooo much this saved me much angst!!! p.s. stalkers are not fun!
Reformed_Geek
May 8th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Does what it says on the tin. Great stuff, allowed me to save face on facebook.
Tyler
May 23rd, 2010 at 5:08 am
Nice. I like it a lot! It worked!
Vamsi
June 1st, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Hi..
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THANKS A TON <3333333333
Umar
July 1st, 2010 at 9:20 am
thank you soooooooooooooooooooo much…long live u guys!
Pricen2
July 28th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
They’ll still receive an email detailing your original friend request though – so it’ll look even more weird that the friend request never ‘arrived’ on their profile.
Amy
July 29th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Hey thnx….it worked..although i dint expected…thnx
Arjun
July 31st, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Happy to know that it helped you guys.
Arjun
July 31st, 2010 at 7:59 pm
@ Pricen2: A lot of people turn off email notifications so they won’t know about the friend request. But even if they haven’t I think it’s still better to revoke the request rather than to have that person accept it.
Matthew
August 12th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Thanks!
prabhu
September 12th, 2010 at 5:08 am
thanks buddy
Bonnie
December 8th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Thank you for this! I just accidentally clicked to add a musician I like as a friend, when I actually meant to “Like” his page. Felt a bit silly as I don’t really want him to think I want to be his friend, like a stalker. This worked a treat – thanks! x
Shravan
February 18th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
DUDE!!! MANY THANKS!!! U ROCK BIG TYM
Rod
February 21st, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Why can’t you just cancel friend request? When you see that person’s profile there is an option to cancel friend request if your request has been sent but has not been accepted yet.
Saurabh Shrivastava
April 4th, 2011 at 8:42 am
It Works!!!!
KD
May 29th, 2011 at 12:58 am
Thanks so much! My hubby put in a request to someone he hates by mistake, and he was able to avoid connecting using this “cheat.”
Elliott Oho
June 23rd, 2011 at 1:38 am
THANK YOU X 3
sajan
July 16th, 2011 at 8:39 am
thanks yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
catalina ordille
July 20th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
on the bottom of that persons profile there will be under block person a link that says cancel friend request!
Ved Prakash
July 25th, 2011 at 5:51 pm
If you click on the person’s profile, and then scroll down below his friend’s list, there are two links 1) Cancel Friend’s request, 2 ) Report/block this person.
That should solve the prob
Sushant
August 13th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Rod is right. You can simply cancel the request by going to that person’s profile page.
Sushant
August 13th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Or may be this option wasn’t there when the post was originally written.
Joseph
August 21st, 2011 at 3:37 am
Bro, u ae truly a life saver. We can not only diable the request we sent, but also can revoke a fren request incase we have declined somebody’s fren request and mentioned as ‘i don know this person outside facebook’. Bravo.
Gunjan Juyal
September 6th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Wow, that was useful. Thanks for clear, concise instructions
chi
March 30th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
thanks for the info..