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How To Cancel A Friend Request On Facebook ?

March 20, 2009 by Gautam

How To Cancel A Friend Request On Facebook ?

If you have sent a friend request on Facebook which is not yet addressed, then there is no way you can cancel the sent request.

( **Update** : FB has come up with a way to cancel a Friend request. Please read this post to know how to cancel a friend request / invite on Facebook. )

Facebook automatically terminates that request after 3 months. Till then the request will be present in his account, unless the user decides to reject or accept it.

This was the case in my account a couple of months ago. May be Facebook should change this rule.

At times, we may end up sending friend request to the wrong person, by mistake. This feature will be handy then 🙂

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  1. sandeepsingh says

    September 15, 2012 at 6:31 am

    plz plz plz my friend request open

  2. sandeepsingh says

    September 15, 2012 at 6:26 am

    how to cancel a friend request on facebook plz open my friend request

  3. Tejas Borse says

    March 18, 2012 at 10:43 am

    Thanks..Sarah..

  4. milind kamble says

    January 11, 2012 at 3:42 am

    At time it’s no more possible to read my post’s because my account was disabled, but I have copy of most of them saved on myhard disk.
    It is possible that this was the reason my account have been disabled ?
    If so, why other people wasn’t disabled too ?
    Why the account of other peoples, who really disagreed (racial offence and injure intimidations) the Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities wasn’t disabled ?

  5. lolwat says

    May 31, 2011 at 7:16 am

    also when go to the bottom of there family listing the it will say

    *repor/block this person
    *sheare this profile
    *cancel friend request

    click the cancel friend request

  6. ninja says

    February 11, 2011 at 9:15 am

    also when go to the bottom of there family listing the it will say

    *repor/block this person
    *sheare this profile
    *cancel friend request

    click the cancel friend request

  7. ninja says

    February 11, 2011 at 9:15 am

    also when go to the bottom of there family listing the it will say

    *repor/block this person
    *sheare this profile
    *cancel friend request

    click the cancel

  8. jimmy says

    January 4, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    Yeah.. It really works.. Thanks a lot…!!!

  9. Sharad says

    January 4, 2011 at 7:31 pm

    @Gautam H N
    Thanks.. It works

  10. Eric Scott says

    July 30, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    well, your advice is quite helps me to do cancel my friend request…

  11. Michelle says

    July 1, 2010 at 7:20 am

    OMG this really works thanks soooo much!!!!

  12. Teri says

    May 31, 2010 at 4:31 am

    Yes this method works! Thanks!!!

  13. Ryan says

    September 11, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    Not only is there a way to cancel a facebook friends request, but there are actually TWO WAYS. The way that I have been doing it for the past three years is:- http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Cancel-A-Facebook-Friend-Request

  14. Gautam says

    September 8, 2009 at 2:16 am

    @Emma 🙂

  15. emma says

    September 8, 2009 at 2:04 am

    it really does! thanking you lots!

  16. Gautam says

    August 23, 2009 at 5:19 am

    @Boom – Welcome

  17. Boom says

    August 23, 2009 at 3:41 am

    Helper, that was awesome. Thanks for posting it. FR’d someone by accident.

  18. Gautam says

    August 13, 2009 at 8:20 am

    @Helper – Thanks for the tips.

  19. helper says

    August 13, 2009 at 1:02 am

    There is another way…(it’s new) go to your friend list
    find the person on the list.
    It should say ‘awaiting confirmation’, and click on the X next to them. It will remove the request.

  20. Lucas Henshaw says

    June 24, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    I can confirm this works! thanks so much, After a drunken night of friend requesting i have rectified all that was done!

  21. sheper says

    June 8, 2009 at 6:00 am

    thankss sarahhhh…… it’s reallyy help me

  22. Gautam H N says

    May 29, 2009 at 12:49 am

    @Sarah – Thanks will check and update the post.

  23. Sarah says

    May 29, 2009 at 12:47 am

    You can go to your privacy settings and block that person and then unblock them right away or you can wait a hour or so. When you unblock that person go find them again and you will see that the friend request is gone away because you will be able to request them as a friend again. Hope this is helpful

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