Friend requests on Facebook are always exciting. But at the moment they are rather annoying because they are almost exclusively dating spam.
As a rule, friend requests on Facebook are always an exciting thing: When the small request symbol suddenly changes color and thus symbolizes that someone has made a request, curiosity is quickly aroused.
An old school friend? Work colleague? Or someone else who has long been forgotten but is happy about rekindling contact?
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Unfortunately, you don't have that pleasant feeling at the moment when friend requests come in. No, they are mostly some meaningless profiles of young women or men who like to be seen posing sexy in their profile picture.
At the same time, if you take the trouble to look at the profile, you will usually find a posting that is some kind of dating nonsense:

At this point we give 3 tips on how to deal with such a request:
Tip 1: Don't accept friend requests!
There's not much to say. These people are neither real nor do they really want to be friends with any of us. Therefore reject.
Tip 2: Mark profile as spam.
We should all help Facebook at this point and mark the profile as spam so that it is deleted and can no longer send another friend request.

Tip 3: Limit requests.
So that you no longer receive unwanted requests from completely stranger accounts, you should limit the requests. Fortunately, this is quite simple:
To do this, simply click on your friend requests and “Settings”. It is very likely that many users have set this up so that any other user can send them a friend request. This happens when “All” is selected here. Now switch to “Friends of Friends” and you will no longer receive friend requests from these fake profiles.
Here is the direct link .
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Beware of the subscription trap!
In our article “It's hot, the sexy friend requests are back!” ( here ) we also describe what dangerous subscription traps are hidden behind these fake accounts and how expensive it can end up being.
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