Someone just sends you a friend request on Facebook. Confirm? or Decline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Facebook. I often receive some friend requests from other people I do not immediately recall. For those who know me, I am not willing to confirm the request blindly. I worry that once I connect with a stranger, the stranger will use my connections to connect with my friends. If my friends are careless in accepting invitations, my blind confirmation will put my friend in jeopardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, if I do not recall the person immediately, I often look at their profile. If the profile brings some memory or tells some connection I have with the person in real life, a confirmation will be issued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problem is some people do not show much on their profile. A decline is almost immediate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At other times, the profile tells something but is not enough for me to decide. In this case, I often message the person:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good day, xxx. Received your Facebook friend invitation. Glad but will need some basic information before I can accept your invitation. Do you mind giving me a brief self-introduction?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If a self-introduction is not received in a week, the invitation is deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My dear Facebook friends, I hope you will adopt a similar strategy to protect me just as I do for you. Safe Facebooking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone just sends you a friend request on Facebook. Confirm? or Decline? On Facebook. I often receive some friend requests from other people I do not immediately recall. For those who know me, I am not willing to confirm the request blindly. I worry that once I connect with a stranger, the stranger will use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/491302262_10162364139263903_7356797360053268835_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chavezpoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}