Facebook Friend Request Accepted From Person I Never Friended
Posted November 29, 2011 by Nick Vogt in Web and Internet
Just today I signed into Facebook to find a new notification informing me that an Arabic-named person had accepted my friend request:
The only problem is, I never sent a friend request to this person. I rarely send friend requests out at all, and only to people that I talk to in person. I checked my friends list to make sure it wasn't an error and sure enough, my new "friend" was in there.
The link to their profile is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003219276513 if you want to check it out. There isn't much there.
So what happened? I am extremely diligent when it come to online activity. I use no Facebook games or apps, I have AdBlock Plus and NoScript, and I have never visited that profile or any like it. I can only assume it was either a glitch on Facebook's side or this person found an exploit in Facebook to add a friend without consent.
Yes, I unfriended them. I also changed my password just in case by some insane circumstance it got phished. No obscure events, messages, posts, or anything though so that was likely unnecessary.
The only problem is, I never sent a friend request to this person. I rarely send friend requests out at all, and only to people that I talk to in person. I checked my friends list to make sure it wasn't an error and sure enough, my new "friend" was in there.
The link to their profile is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003219276513 if you want to check it out. There isn't much there.
So what happened? I am extremely diligent when it come to online activity. I use no Facebook games or apps, I have AdBlock Plus and NoScript, and I have never visited that profile or any like it. I can only assume it was either a glitch on Facebook's side or this person found an exploit in Facebook to add a friend without consent.
Yes, I unfriended them. I also changed my password just in case by some insane circumstance it got phished. No obscure events, messages, posts, or anything though so that was likely unnecessary.
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