How to Know If Your Facebook Request Is Denied (2024)

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How to Know If Your Facebook Request Is Denied? ›

Look at the gray button next to the person's name. If the button reads "Friend Request Sent," the person has not yet accepted or declined your friend request. If the button reads "+1 Add Friend," the person denied your friendship request.

Check the person's profile: One way to determine if someone rejected your follow request is by visiting their profile. If their profile still says "Requested," it means they haven't accepted or rejected your request. However, if their profile says "Follow" again, it's likely they have rejected your request [1].

If you ignore a Facebook friend request, the person who sent the request will not be notified, and the request will simply remain in your pending friend requests. The person who sent the request will not be able to see your profile or any of your content that's set to friends-only until you accept their friend request.

If you're currently not able to send friend requests, this is usually because: You recently sent a lot of friend requests. Your past friend requests have gone unanswered. Your past friend requests were marked as unwelcome.

The only way to prevent Facebook from notifying friends when you've accepted a friend request is to hide your friends list.

It's important to note that Instagram does not notify users when their follow request is rejected. As such, users need to check manually. Determining the status of your follow request involves a few simple steps.

Alternatively, if a user has denied a follow request, the “Requested” button typically turns back into a “Follow” button for users visiting their profile.

If you click on 'View sent requests' Facebook will then pull up your dreaded list of sent requests. You can scroll through at your leisure and peruse the names of all the people who have turned you down or who never responded to your request.

In summary, if you cancelled the friend request immediately after sending it, it is unlikely that the person saw the notification. However, if they were online at the time or if you took some time to cancel the request, there is a possibility that they may have seen the notification before it was cancelled.

Currently friend requests DO NOT EXPIRE, and there are no plans on changing that in the near future. There is however a limit on the number of friend requests so if someone has an inbox that is full they will not be able to receive any new friend requests until they manually delete or accept the older requests.

Why are friend requests denied? ›

Having your friend request rejected can be confusing and painful. The reason for it is only known by the rejector but it typically means they don't want to add you to their friends list, interact with you on that particular social media application, share their posts with you, or see your posts in t...

I sent someone a Facebook friend request a while ago, and the add friend button disappeared and it only says “message”. What does that mean? It means they changed their settings so the add friend button is not visible. They want a message instead so they can choose to send a friend request or not.

A friend request will be sent immediately, and you will receive a notification once it is accepted. If you don't see the Add Friend button, the person you are trying to add does not accept friend requests from people with whom they have no mutual friends.

Pending Follow Requests: If you had a pending follow request from someone and it suddenly disappears from your account, it's likely that the person canceled their request. You can check your pending follow requests by going to your Instagram profile and tapping on the "Followers" tab.