See pending, declined or canceled Facebook friend requests

One of the favorite hobbies on social networks is to go to Facebook and browse the various suggestions in the list of “friends you may know“The same Facebook site encourages people to add as many friends as possible, so they can make new friends and always show a list of people they might know (because they may have friends in common with me).
So it happens to spend a few minutes of the day launching random friend requests, perhaps because they are inspired by the photo of a beautiful girl or a handsome boy or, simply, because they work in the same company or have attended the same school / university. At some point we will have sent so many friend requests that we do not know which ones are accepted, which ones have been rejected (even if Facebook does not explicitly say so, just see if the button to add friendship has reappeared) and those deleted from ourselves (perhaps because added by mistake).
If we don’t know how to handle or decline all pending friend requests, we’ll show you in this guide how to see Facebook friend requests pending confirmation, rejected or canceled from both the website and the official app available for Android and iPhone.

How to manage friend requests on Facebook

For those who have been using the blue social network for a long time, perhaps these steps are so automatic that they do not even require reading the guide, but those who come to Facebook for the first time, one of the things they must immediately learn is to manage their friends list correctly. , in particular by carefully viewing which requests have been sent, which have been confirmed and which have been rejected or canceled.

How to manage requests from a PC

If we use a PC with Windows or a Mac to access the Facebook social network, we can quickly check our friend requests and their outcomes directly from the dedicated page available here -> Facebook requests.

On this page we will find all the friend requests already sent, those pending or awaiting confirmation. If we remember perfectly the people we have added, the list at the top will be empty, a clear sign that the people contacted for friendship have already reacted: just check the notifications in the top right (icon of the little man) or access the list of friends to see if it presents as additions the people we wanted to meet.
In the same window we can also see a list of contacts that we can add to our friends list: most of the contacts will be friends of friends or people who match the personal information we have provided (same school, same workplace, same university or same city).

How to manage requests from a smartphone or tablet

If we often use Facebook from a smartphone or tablet, we can check how far the request is directly from the official Facebook app, available for free for Android and iPhone / iPad.
Once downloaded and logged in with our Facebook profile, just press the symbol with the two men at the top to see the list of Facebook friend requests awaiting confirmation.

In the same screen we can press the button Requests to see the friend requests that we have yet to confirm or press the button All of the friends to view the list of friends we have successfully added.

Extension to check friend requests

For more details we can also install extension Unfriend Finder for the Chrome browser and for the Firefox open source browser.

This extension is mainly used by Facebook users for find out who cancels a friendship, but, thanks to the integration with Facebook, it becomes very convenient to be able to manage all old friend requests sent, but also friend requests that have not been accepted and those that we have declined. The extension will provide a notification with a message whenever someone refuses clearly the request for contact and also when this request is canceled without answer. Even if both are, in fact, negative responses, canceling the request may be due to the fact that that person had too many notifications and did a complete cleanup by pressing the “remove all” button. In this case, therefore, there is perhaps still hope of obtaining an affirmative answer by submitting a new request. Pending friend requests can be seen from the menu Awaiting Requests.

On the developer’s website you will find detailed instructions for installation on the browser used.
Being a script that works on the computer, the menu Unfriend it does not appear if you connect to Facebook from another computer, without the extension being installed. In the options, however, there is a backup function that allows you to import and export the file with pending requests and notifications of contacts who have removed the friendship. Also in the options you can configure which warnings to appear between rejected, canceled and accepted requests. For those who have difficulty understanding the English language, the possibility of setting the Italian language will be delighted.

After installing this extension, a donation box and a box to say “Like” to the Unfriend Finder fan page appear on the right side of the Facebook page, which cannot be deleted (they are part of the package and we must keep them) .

Conclusions

By following all the steps and methods described above we will be able to manage Facebook friend requests like real veterans, helping us with the tools made available by the same social network or using a convenient browser extension. If we are looking for many new friends, be careful not to forward too many friend requests at the same time because it is one of the main causes of Facebook bans.

If, on the other hand, we want to become even better at using the blue social network, we recommend that you read our guides to hidden options and rules on Facebook friendships and how Manage Facebook notifications to not receive the most annoying ones.