Facebook has grown over the years to become the most used social media network. No wonder each user has thousands of friends, those they know and people who they have not seen before. Occasionally, we tend to see several friend request and we wish to cancel them at once, that is what we will discuss in today’s guide.
See how to cancel sent Facebook friends request:
Unfortunately, when someone sends too many friend requests every day, Facebook tends to treat the person as being the owner of a fake account and for that reason the person is prevented from sending additional friend requests. That person may be blocked for a period of between two days to one month or may be permanently banned from sending friend requests when the mistake is made repeatedly.
If you have questions concerning how you can cancel all friend requests which has been sent on Facebook, then you are on the right page and at the right time.
Methods to Cancel All Pending Facebook Friend Requests
There are 3 key available methods you can use to cancel friend requests you’ve sent on Facebook which I will be sharing with you in this article. First of all, you have to log in to your Facebook account before you can continue.
Let’s get started!!!
First Method
Canceling pending friend requests is really simple once you know the individual’s Facebook user name. If you are new on Facebook, then following the outlined steps below will be of help to you.
ON YOUR FACEBOOK APPLICATION:
- Within the Facebook search box, type the individual’s Facebook user name to search for the person.
- Once you’ve found the individual’s profile which you wish to cancel the sent friend request, click on ‘Cancel Request‘
- On the screen that pops up, click on ‘Cancel Request‘
ON YOUR BROWSER:
- Within the Facebook search box, type the individual’s Facebook user name to search for the person.
- Once you’ve found the individual’s profile which you wish to cancel the sent friend request, hover the mouse on ‘Friend Request Sent‘.
- On the screen that pops up, click on ‘Cancel Request‘.
- You will get a notification to confirm the canceling, click on ‘Cancel Request‘.
Second Method:
- On your browser, log in your Facebook profile details
- At the top right-hand side of your Facebook page, click on ‘Friend Requests’.
- On the pop-up screen, click on ‘Find Friends’
- On the screen that pops up, click on ‘View Sent Requests’
- A list of all the friend requests you’ve sent will appear, hover on ‘Friend Request Sent’, scroll down and click on ‘Cancel Request’
- A notification will pop up asking you to confirm the cancelling, click on ‘Cancel Request’
Third Method
- Click on this link Sent Friend Requests
- It’ll take you to all your sent friend request list.
- There, you will be able to cancel the friend requests that you’ve sent.
This is just how easy it is to cancel the sent request list. I hope this article was helpful to trim your Facebook sent request list.
