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    Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    Anyone else having this problem? In the last few days I've had two people (neither of whom I know) become my friends on facebook, after apparently accepting friend requests I never sent them.

    I've changed my password to be safe, but I'm wondering how this is possibe? Is there some kind of facebook url that can also send someone a friend request if you are logged in on FB?

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    Have you reported it to Facebook? Could be a bug, or something malicious.

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    One of them was company related. I think it might be a similar process to the url action that results in your liking something when you click on a link. From a quick google, it appears that a similar approach can be used to send a friend request to someone when you click a link (assuming of course you are already logged into FB in the same browser session).

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    I've wondered how the F have I become friends with someone before, it turned out they changed their username to some odd nickname.

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    In a similar vein, what's it with Youtube and people adding me to their 'like' list - or whatever the BS is?
    I've zero desire for it, have a blank info' page and only look at it every two months or so! Is there a polite, or less polite, way to get ride of them? As I'm asking, you can assume I didn't care enough to go faffing around on the site

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    I'm not even on Facesuck and I keep getting stuff from "them", nothing like a little Phishing scam...

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    Quote Originally Posted by Gordo View Post
    In a similar vein, what's it with Youtube and people adding me to their 'like' list - or whatever the BS is?
    I've zero desire for it, have a blank info' page and only look at it every two months or so! Is there a polite, or less polite, way to get ride of them? As I'm asking, you can assume I didn't care enough to go faffing around on the site
    Are you talking about people "liking" your videos? What's the problem?

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    I haven't posted any videos, so that shouldn't be the case - as I understand it (and I may be wrong), these are people who will be able to follow my viewing of the videos on Youtube. If so, I DO NOT appreciate it - however, if they were people who, if I ever posted any, could 'follow' my postings, fair enough.

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bungle View Post
    Are you talking about people "liking" your videos? What's the problem?
    Liking any of your own content is gay. LazerLips is a likely candidate for doing this.
    Last edited by dangermoose; 05-30-2012 at 09:43 AM.

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    Re: Facebook issue - unsolicited friends?

    If they didn't like it, why would they post it?

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