Is there a limit to how many people can send you friend requests?

If I were you, I’d make my settings to where nobody can send you a friend request.

It seems like maybe your profile is being passed around to spammers.

I accept no friend requests unless I know the person in real life, or maybe if I know them from a group, from interactions with them (like Fluther).

Even having mutual friends is not a guarantee that they’re legit. About two years ago, I accepted a friend request from some military guy who had two mutual friends. I figured since these two mutual people are both upstanding individuals, the military guy must be ok. He started pm’ing me and asking me personal questions, and this raised red flags. Silly me, I didn’t ask him how he knew our mutual friends, but I was suspicious. He was really handsome, about 60, and in great shape. I googled him and he was high up in the US Army, leading troops in Afghanistan, and married. I was wondering why he was interested in me. I told him google says he’s married and he said it was incorrect. I was still doubtful. Within a few hours of being his friend, I googled more and found out that this person’s profile was one commonly used by scammers. I unfriended him right away. I was annoyed at myself for being trusting and accepting a friend request just based on mutual friends, who obviously have no clue that it’s a fake profile.

Most random friend requests that I receive are men, and when I look at their profile there are only a few photos, the status often says “single” and it’s just an obvious scam. I reject the request and mark it “spam” so they can’t try again.

Another thing I changed was I make my friends list where only I can see it. I don’t want any friends being able to see who else I’m friends with. Of course, FB shows mutual friends but nobody else.

Facebook and twitter are actively cancelling fake politically motivated accounts. There has been a flurry of fake account activity by The BL .They are setting themselves up for injecting spam fake news closer to election.
Don’t just delete them. Flag them as spam so Facebook can take a look. And tell your duped mutual friends

@jca2 I wasn’t given the option to block everyone from friend requesting me, how do you do that?

@LuckyGuy yeah, I’m marking as spam as well

@SergeantQueen: In your settings, one of the choices is “who can send you a friend request?” You can choose “everyone” or “nobody.”

Settings to “Privacy settings and tools” to “Who can send you friend requests?”

@jca2 huh. I have two options “Everyone” or “friends of friends”

Don’t know.. All I ever get are “Drop Dead” requests. Sticks and stones, sticks and stones.

@SergeantQueen: Sorry – make it “friends of friends” and then if you keep your friends to your real friends (people you know or trust pretty much), then you won’t get any random spam requests.

@jca2 Just did. Going to clean out my friends list tonight. Thank you!