Friend requests in Facebook

[Marzipan]

Hi

I have a question about friend requests in facebook.
My sister sent me a friend request.
I am not fond of her so I do not want to add her as a friend.
So I did not respond to her friend request, I did not accept nor did i press ignore it.
What will happen to this friend request?
Will it stay forever or eventually go away?

I decided not to send a decline or ignore, because I do not want to get into why I don't want to be her friend.
If she asks, I plan to tell her that I did not see her request as I am not too familiar with facebook.


Thanks
marzipan

[MDefarge]

I believe if you ignore it then they can not request you again.

[Hushabye]

I believe if you ignore it then they can not request you again.

Actually, I believe that if you click "ignore", then you pop back up in their "Suggested Friends" thingie or they can simply search for you and send another friend request.  The only way I *know* that prevents someone from sending a friend request to you is if you block them -- then you don't show up for them at all.  Making yourself unsearchable and setting your privacy settings very tightly helps, too.

Wait, I think you were saying that if the OP just ignores it, as in pretends it isn't there, the sister can't request again?  Because I'm pretty sure you're right on that count.  If that's what you meant, I apologize.  It's kind of confusing since a refusal requires pressing the "ignore" button...

[MDefarge]

I believe if you ignore it then they can not request you again.

Actually, I believe that if you click "ignore", then you pop back up in their "Suggested Friends" thingie or they can simply search for you and send another friend request.  The only way I *know* that prevents someone from sending a friend request to you is if you block them -- then you don't show up for them at all.  Making yourself unsearchable and setting your privacy settings very tightly helps, too.

Wait, I think you were saying that if the OP just ignores it, as in pretends it isn't there, the sister can't request again?  Because I'm pretty sure you're right on that count.  If that's what you meant, I apologize.  It's kind of confusing since a refusal requires pressing the "ignore" button...

Lol, yeah sorry for the confusion I meant ignore as in pretend it isn't there.

[Hushabye]

I believe if you ignore it then they can not request you again.

Actually, I believe that if you click "ignore", then you pop back up in their "Suggested Friends" thingie or they can simply search for you and send another friend request.  The only way I *know* that prevents someone from sending a friend request to you is if you block them -- then you don't show up for them at all.  Making yourself unsearchable and setting your privacy settings very tightly helps, too.

Wait, I think you were saying that if the OP just ignores it, as in pretends it isn't there, the sister can't request again?  Because I'm pretty sure you're right on that count.  If that's what you meant, I apologize.  It's kind of confusing since a refusal requires pressing the "ignore" button...

Lol, yeah sorry for the confusion I meant ignore as in pretend it isn't there.

Okay, makes sense now.  I only had to read it three times... Some days Facebook drives me up the wall. 

[C0mputerGeek]

I've heard that if you leave the friend request in your queque, they cannot send another.  I usually just block and then ignore for people I don't want to be bothered with. Then again. I have some strange thing about liking my queue to be "clean" so I don't leave any requests in there.

[Akarui Kibuno]

Thing is, she might check your profile from time to time to see if you have accepted or not. And if you don't do anything, she will still see the request as "pending" and may start bothering you about it.

[StarDrifter]

Thing is, she might check your profile from time to time to see if you have accepted or not. And if you don't do anything, she will still see the request as "pending" and may start bothering you about it.

It will be on *her* profile that the friend request is pending- if you press 'ignore' it will disappear, and if she's got heaps of friends then you will disappear into the ether unless she is looking for you specifically, or you post something that comes up on her front page.

If you hit 'ignore and block' then you will effectively become invisible to her on facebook- even if you have mutual friends, it won't publish anything about you (even if a friend of yours comments on a photo or post of yours) on her page.

I've done the 'ignore and block' on a few people who associate with friends of mine, and have heard through the grapevine (from a mutual acquaintance) that myself and a number of other people, according to this "clique", are I quote 'So freaking LAME they don't even HAVE facebook!"

I just want to go up to them and say in a very un-eHell approved manner 'well, yes I do have facebook, but I'd rather use it to communicate with FRIENDS than J3RKS like you!'

[kitchenscratch]

If ignoring (as in not taking any action, not hitting the ignore button) is your strategy, I am pretty sure that these requests do not "expire" after thirty days or something. If these requests do expire, it must take them an awful long time because I had somebody accept my friend request TWO YEARS after I sent it. Grain of salt, tho--FB changes their little rules all the time, and this was a while ago.

I've heard that if you leave the friend request in your queque, they cannot send another.  I usually just block and then ignore for people I don't want to be bothered with. Then again. I have some strange thing about liking my queue to be "clean" so I don't leave any requests in there.