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So in the past i had different people telling me stories that someone would accept friend requests that they didnt sent in the first place.
I was like...ah well...its probably something stupid. maybe some malware, or a missclick.
Now the same fucking thing happened to me.
I get this message that this girl has accepted my friend request...but i never sent one to her, nor do i know her, although we have 4 friends in common.
Its really disturbing...im the kind of person that would spent time deleting (facebook)friends from facebook to safeguard his privacy somewhat.
I run symantec endpoint and malwarebytes regulary, so i doubt much could have gotten past that.
I read many similar stories about this on the internet, but nobody really seems to have a clue as to why it happens.
Ok, i had it happen to twitter, but that account was most definetly hacked as it started following random russian and arab accounts.
But thats the purpose of those viruses...they want specific users to gain more exposure on social media.
I dont know why a virus would add someone in your city who has friends incommon with you, that serves no purpose but to make people paranoid :D.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/emind-host/facebook-is-making-friend-requests-without-your-permission/353631351330667
There is stuff like this..but yea...everyone seems to be pretty clueless.
Anyone else experienced this?
I vaguely wonder if facebook is doing this intentionally to grow personal social networks and thus make stuff like social marketing alot more effective as they have more reach.
Thank god its a hot girl....although im pretty sure she is like "wtf...why is this creepy dude adding me on facebook" ... its kind of annoying... since i never sent any request :/
 
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TLADT24920 Posts
I think you're overreacting just a bit lol. You can easily delete her and just put it behind you. If it makes you feel better, you can always send her a message mentioning what you think happened and such but I don't think that's needed if you didn't add her in the first place.
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I hate facebook, I never use it and only have it to keep in contact with my Thai family (you know what Asian people are like with photos...).
But yeah that doesn't surprise me that they do that, they want as many people connected so it's easier to market to different demographics I guess.
I reckon they do heaps of random shit that people don't actually give permission for them to do or don't read the fine print when they click accept.
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Would suck if you're in a relationship and have to explain why you're adding hot girls you shouldn't know.
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Same problem here... I'm frequently auto-Friended by complete strangers 
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Caldeum1977 Posts
Facebook has it so that adding someone to friends takes only 1 click, so I know that I've accidentally clicked on that before with someone who I didn't want to be friends with. Is it possible that you did the same by mistake?
At the same time facebook is evil and I could see someone at their office going through and messing with people going "haha lets have this creepy dude friend request this hot girl and see what happens."
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On June 19 2014 13:39 Valiver wrote:
Facebook has it so that adding someone to friends takes only 1 click, so I know that I've accidentally clicked on that before with someone who I didn't want to be friends with. Is it possible that you did the same by mistake?
At the same time facebook is evil and I could see someone at their office going through and messing with people going "haha lets have this creepy dude friend request this hot girl and see what happens."
Yea maybe with my uber high starcraft APM i accidently clicked on something.
Nah but its still strange that so many other people seem to have this issue. I was just curious to hear if others had experiences with this.
if we get enough testimonies from facebook-victims we can sue facebook for intrusion on privacy and make alot of money, ok? :D
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facebook is pretty fucked up, you should know this by now
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You keep going to the bad parts of town you gonna get mugged. I mean it sucks but what do you expect us to do about it, except to say maybe you should only be using Facebook for promotion.
edit: I meant except for promotion. There are legitimate reasons to use Facebook for business. For personal stuff, if you value your privacy at all, no.
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Oh wow, I thought that I was the only one that started having random stuff liked/random people added as friends. Glad to know that I'm not the only one.
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Why does this not happen to me? Even facebook does not think I should have more friends
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On June 19 2014 14:41 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
is she cute?
MM1 asks the hard hitting questions.
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I've actually started to check my activities log after almost every session of facebook. Especially when I use my phone since it's so easy to tap something I didn't want to
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