HOW TO: Cancel Friend Request in Facebook ?

For Twitter, we have some automation tools to increase the followers count. Same way we may decrease the following count. In Facebook there is no such third party applications exists (as far i know) to get more friends, we can add friends by seeing the recommendation list and friends suggestions by facebook.

Also, we may use our email contacts to invite and add (existing facebook users) to get more facebook friends.

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When we are too concern about privacy in facebook, Sometimes we get excited and give friend requests to an unknown people and finally realize that it is not right. So these are simple steps to cancel the friend request

I’m writing this tutorial assuming that you are in your facebook profile page.

1) Click the “Account” drop down button on the top right of the page

2) Select the “Manage Friends” option

3) After which you could see the listing of the all the friends including the friends to whom you have given a “friend request“

4) Search for the person (The friends are listed in alphabetical order)

5) Once you get him/her click the “X” (close button) next to the Add to list option

And you are done. Enjoy the social networking experience with facebook much better and safer 🙂 Do subscribe for our Free Newsletters to get more such tutorials and interesting news right in your Mail Box.