Have you sent a lot of friend requests in a short time? If they want to add you, they can unfriend someone else. If you try to add someone that has this number, you won’t be able to.īut you can still go down the Messenger contact route. It seems weird with billions of users, but there is a cap on the number of friends you can have on Facebook.Ĭurrently, there’s a limit of 5,000 friends. Sometimes you still have the option to send them a Messenger message, depending on how much trouble they are in! They have the maximum number of friends So it can be worth checking back later to see if they reappear. Most of the time, people are restricted from using Facebook for a set period. If someone ends up in ‘Facebook jail’ for various reasons, they won’t show up for you to send a request.
While it’s deactivated, you can still send a Messenger message. Unless they’ve scheduled the account to be deleted, at which point it will vanish. If someone has deactivated their account but not deleted it, you can’t send a friend request. If the person you want to add is there, you can unblock them and then send the request. Here you’ll see a list of the people you’ve blocked on Facebook. Just go to your Settings then Privacy > Blocking. The result is similar to them blocking you. If the person is someone you’ve had contact with before, you may have blocked them. However, if they’ve blocked you, you can’t see their profile or any public content. There are loads of reasons they can do this. Then it depends on how often they check this for them to see the request!Īnother common reason for not being able to add someone on Facebook is if they’ve blocked you. You can still try to send them a Messenger message, but this will go into the ‘message request’ section. If someone has their account set to ‘friends of friends’ and you don’t have a mutual friend, you won’t be able to send them a request. This means that people are more likely to change their settings to tighten privacy. Privacy settings is something Facebook spends a lot more time highlighting to users these days. Their privacy settings mean you can’t see their account That means there isn’t always a lot you can do about it.
These sometimes come from your profile, but sometimes from the person you are trying to send the request to. Now we know a few of the basics of adding, or not being able to add, someone on Facebook, let’s look at the most common problems. With each post they make, they can choose if the want it seen by only friends, or an even more selective audience. So, you can follow them to see the updates they allow followers, but that’s all. It allows people to follow them but not to send a friend request. Why can’t I add someone on Facebook, only follow?Īnother situation you might encounter is the option to follow someone but not send a friend request.Īgain, this is a privacy settings choice the person has made. If this is the case, you might have to accept you can’t add them as a friend. That’s because they have their privacy settings in a way that anyone who doesn’t have an existing connection can’t send them a friend request. Occasionally, you will see a profile where there is no ‘add friend’ button. Why is there no add friend button on some Facebook profiles? The ‘add friend’ button will now become a ‘cancel request’ button you can click, and the request will vanish. If you suddenly realize it’s the wrong person, go to their profile.
If you do, you can go to that mutual friend’s profile and scroll through their Friends tab until you find the person you want to add.įrom here, you can just select the ‘add friend’ button and they will receive a standard Facebook friend request. You may also see them if they have a ‘friend of friend’ setting, and you have a mutual friend. If they have a public profile, you’ll be able to find them this way. You can search for them by name, as with most social media platforms.
The process to add someone on Facebook hasn’t changed much.
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How to Send and Cancel a Friend Request on Facebook Let’s look and see if we can solve the problem! There are a few reasons why you can’t send a friend request to someone on Facebook.Īnd a few possible issues that are out of your control. Trying to send a friend request on Facebook?Īnd now you want to add someone to your list of connections.
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