Meta, Facebook's parent company, apologized and said the glitch was corrected. On May 12, 2023, claims began to spread across social media platforms that Facebook would send someone a friend request ...

As of early 2026, Facebook has refined its privacy architecture around friend requests, responding to growing concerns over spam, data scraping, and unwanted digital access. The platform now ...

Meta said it's now fixed a Facebook bug that was sending automatic friend requests when users visited profiles through the app — which was bad news for anyone covertly visiting others’ profiles on the ...

Facebook has confirmed to users that it fixed a friend request bug. This bug saw friend requests being sent to people you were looking up. The company says it’s unsent these erroneous requests. A ...

Learn to track unanswered friend requests on desktop and app, with tips to cancel unwanted requests Reviewed by Jon Fisher ...