Many people don’t reject Facebook friend requests from semi-strangers, they just leave them hanging as “pending” for a long time.

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I just discovered my very nice coworker here at BuzzFeed had 77 pending friend requests on Facebook. 77! What a monster!

When she gets a request from someone she doesn't know, or barely knows, instead of rejecting them she just leaves them hanging. In her opinion, this is kinder than rejecting them, somehow.

I disagree. I hate seeing all those pending requests, so I quickly reject anyone who I don't know at all (I'll accept acquaintances and put them on a limited privacy list).

I should point out that if you leave someone “pending”, they get subscribed to your updates. That means anything you post with the privacy level “Public”, they see in their feed. This also means they probably THINK you accepted them. Sneaky!

You can see who has left YOU hanging. Here's how.

If you're on the Facebook website, you can CLICK THIS LINK to go to the “outgoing requests” page. Or, go into your Friend Requests, then click “view sent requests”.

Click on “Find Friends”

Then click on “View Sent Requests” – this is the list of people who have left you pending.

On the mobile Facebook app, go into the 3 lines at the bottom corner.

Then go into “Friends.”

Do this at your own risk – it might be an unexpected blow to your ego to see who hasn't accepted your request!

For example, BuzzFeed's head of U.S. News, just told me she checked her outgoing friend requests, and only one person has been keeping her in friend purgatory: BuzzFeed's CEO.

Quelle: <a href="Here's How To Find Out Who Left Your Facebook Requests Hanging“>BuzzFeed