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thebighurt (original poster member #34722) posted at 10:29 AM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
I had a notification on my phone that I had a message on FB. After a while, I checked to see what it was.
It was a message from xpos, asking if the request for him to be my 'friend' was real or FB bull***t.
My first thought was to send a reply asking in what universe he thought I would want a lying, cheating, controlling, negative, angry, road raged, PA, PD, borderline NPD, SA, "back of the (DSM) book", pos who tried to kill me and DD for a "friend" even in cyberspace?
(Everything after PD was said of him by my IC in the last few months I saw her.)
What I actually did? Blocked him on FB....... again! I think FB took that away in one of their 'upgrades' too! I wonder if he will get the idea or if he needs it spelled out?
Finding what life could have been....... Why didn't I see it?
Vulcanized ( member #33523) posted at 10:40 AM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Arggh. I'm sorry you had to deal w/that drek.
FB can really suck sometimes. It kept telling me to be friends w/my XH.
Blocked his lame ass & it hasn't come up since. But, I think he blocked me too, so that might be why.
Me: fBW/MH 40s
3.26.13: Liberation day: D'd the whiny turd after being saddled with a serial cheating, NPD, jitbag 10 years too long
Now:-----> Everything is as it should be
SBB ( member #35229) posted at 10:46 AM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
I've never heard of FB doing this. I've been using it daily for over 6 years.
Have you been looking at his page at all? Especially on your phone you could be trying to click on something and send the friend request instead. That has happened to me.
I've also heart of people creating fake profiles of real people and friending their friend.s Do you have the friend request on your FB? There's a place where you can see your requests.
I may have reached a point where I'd piss on him if he was on fire.... eventually!!
thebighurt (original poster member #34722) posted at 11:04 AM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
I've also had several very strange friend requests that I doubt would ask me to be their friend. Quite a few from xpos' family, of all thing, and all after DDay and the D. I'm still getting them. In all, I have more than a dozen requests I haven't responded to because of reasons like that. Some people just friend everyone they've ever heard of just to say they have a lot of friends and post every hangnail and every pimple.
I'm on it infrequently. It's always showing me lists of people, asking if I know them. I don't go there. Xpos and I have many friends in common. We have more in common than anyone else on it. I know I never sent a request to him, even mistakenly. I don't look at his page at all.
I get the most random notifications from there. Very strange. When I got that one and went there, there were several others that I hadn't gotten a notification about.
Finding what life could have been....... Why didn't I see it?
Bluebird26 ( member #36445) posted at 11:37 AM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Call me stupid, but why would you believe anything your ex says?
Maybe he was trying to get a reaction from you.
He may have started a new page and that is why he was no longer blocked. If he was blocked you wouldn't have been able to send him a request even accidently as they no longer appear on FB, it's as if they deleted their account. They would also not be able to message you unless they had created a new account. You also can't even see their comments even on mutual friends pages if they are blocked. I have the ex and his clan blocked.
I've had my fair share of 'weirdos' trying to friend request me or send me messages telling me I'm their perfect match written in very poor English
I would check your requests as SBB said, if there is a request there cancel it and then maybe contact FB and ask why this is occurring?
Me: BW
Best thing I gained in my divorce - my freedom.
Life's good.
Amazonia ( member #32810) posted at 12:27 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
I've never heard of it either, and I too use FB allll the time. What I have heard is blocks sometimes not "sticking" or having to be reapplied when changes are rolled out. That's a coding error, not FB trying to fuck with you.
My guess? He got a friend suggestion for you and is too tech-illiterate to understand the difference.
"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
"Let's face it, life is a crap shoot." -Sad in AZ
Lostsoul&<3 ( member #18154) posted at 12:34 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
I also have never heard of that happening. My first thought is if it truly was a friend request is that someone got your password. So it might be time to change the password. The second thought was like another person suggested that he isn't reading it right and it was merely a friend suggestion.
Me~47~~BW
Him~47~~WH
DSs 26 and 21
D-day 4/27/04
A shell going through the motions of living a life.
Cabrona ( member #9596) posted at 1:13 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
I think Amazonia is right. I get Friend SUGGESTIONS from FB all the time, he probably mistook it for a request.
"The truth is, everybody is going to hurt you... you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." —Bob Marley
JerseyCowgirl ( member #41441) posted at 1:22 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
I heard Linkendin and maybe even FB also makes an occasional scan of your email address book and can sometimes send those requests to people in your address book that it recognizes as having an account. There might be s setting on your account that needs to be changed.
Me: Divorced 2012
I know that when I truly love & honor myself I am at my best & most complete; and I will never settle for anything less from myself or from anyone else ever again!
peridot ( member #18334) posted at 2:13 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
A few days ago one of my cousins dad had been added as a friend. Neither one of us sent a request.
I think...therefore, I'm single.
It is what it is.
PhantomLimb ( member #39668) posted at 3:32 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
I've never heard of it either, and I too use FB allll the time. What I have heard is blocks sometimes not "sticking" or having to be reapplied when changes are rolled out. That's a coding error, not FB trying to fuck with you.
My guess? He got a friend suggestion for you and is too tech-illiterate to understand the difference.
^^ This.
Your POS is experiencing delusional wishful thinking.
Amazonia ( member #32810) posted at 4:14 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
You can see on your activity log when you sent or accepted friend requests. I can't help but wonder about accidental adds on phones or devices, or people mistaking the suggestions for requests and then sending a request themselves when they think they're responding to one.
"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
"Let's face it, life is a crap shoot." -Sad in AZ
velveteer ( member #30997) posted at 7:41 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Never seen FB do this. I does make friend suggestions from your extended network, and new ones appear with each new connection you make, but you would have to click on friend request for anything to happen. I did once to WXW - back when I was still stalking her on FB and I accidentally clicked on friend request - withdrew it immediately!!
FB is a nightmare. Voting with my feet on social networks now....
ETA I read something today about FB' usage declining - mibbe they're finding new ways to keep it lively?
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persevere ( member #31468) posted at 8:05 PM on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
This is interesting timing because just this week I received two friend requests from two people I knew (independent of each other) a LONG time ago that are VERY unlikely to friend request me. I have one mutual friend with one and four mutual friends with the other.
I was wondering if something odd was going on with FB, and it was becoming more like Linked In, where it makes it difficult NOT to send link requests.
DDay:2011
Status: D 2011
Remarried to a kind and wonderful man - 2017
Above all, be the heroine, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K.
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