Possible block on Facebook

LegacyUser

I tried to friend someone on Facebook with whom I have no mutual friends.
In a way it was a silly thing to do as I've really not yet become well enough acquainted with them for them to judge my character, etc.

I have a question about Facebook blocking.
I think it is possible that the recipient of my friend request may have blocked me.
The only thing is that I can still see their profile while logged in to Facebook whereas a lot of howto/guides online suggest that blocking would actually hide their profile while I was logged on.

So, here is the thing.
I made the friend request yesterday evening.
While the request was pending overnight a good deal of this person's friends who are not mutual to either of us appeared on my suggested friends list.
I've seen this before with pending friend requests.
Since this morning those additional suggested friends have disappeared of the suggested list.
*However* the friend request is still pending and I can visit the profile of the person to whom I sent the request and it says "Friend Request sent".
So there seems to be a kind of limbo state here and I am not clear if they have just parked my request or blocked me without cancelling/deleting my request.

Anyone know if Facebook has changed and allows you to still view a person's profile (while logged in) even though they have blocked you ?

Obviously there is a personal issue lurking beyond this technical issue but I am trying to gauge if I've been blocked or just not yet attended to in terms of the friend link.

Big Bag of Chips

What would be the point in blocking someone if they were still able to see your profile? If someone blocks you they are invisible to you on Facebook.

If you still see "Friend request pending" it just means that your friend request is still pending. They haven't accepted it yet.

missjm

As far as I'm aware, if somebody blocks you - then they become invisible to you on Facebook. I'd say they probably haven't even seen the friend request yet. As for the suggested friends, that happens the whole time. Nothing unusual there.

Stavro Mueller

If someone has actually blocked you on Facebook you'll not see their profile. Just so you know, one way to find out if you've been blocked is to log out of Facebook and type their name into google. If it shows up there but isn't when you're logged into Facebook, you've got your answer.

LegacyUser

OP here again.
Thanks for the info.

Well I can definitely see their profile while logged into facebook along with the indication that a friend request is sent (i.e pending).
The oddity about the suggested friends is that a fair chunk of the request recipient's friends showed up on my suggested friends until about 9am this morning.
The like poof they disappeared and the suggested list of friends reverted to a more familiar set based on existing established friend connections.

Also, to clarify - when I say I can see their profile while logged in , I see their profile pic, background pic and a limited set of posts mostly relating to changes of profile pics.
I obviously cannot see the wider set of their timeline as the friend request is not yet accepted.
It is just I worried that the disappearing suggested friends suggested that they might have blocked me without deleting my request.

K_P

You haven't been blocked. The suggested friends changes all the time and was likely including this person's friends right after you sent your request. That's more likely to change back to people you have mutual friends with over time.

Again, you haven't been blocked.

Now that that's settled, how about switching off Facebook, stop obsessing and go do something else to take your mind off this.

tinkerbell

Jees, facebook has made life so bloody complicated. OP, stop obsessing. You haven't been blocked and even if you had, you said yourself that you aren't very friendly with the person.

Anyway, what makes you think they'd even accept your request? I get requests all the time from people I am only acquaintances with or don't know that well and I reject them all. I only accept those who I am actually friends with. So - get to know this person in the real world first before diving straight onto their facebook.

And if you do get blocked, you'll just have to get over it. Sorry if that's a bit blunt but you gotta be realistic here.

AmberAmber

I suddenly fee guilty for the 49 friend requests I got over the Christmas , I kid you not, some I know to see, some I don't know at all. and I tell ya they be waiting cos I not that fussed about Facebook, I am on it every day. but I don't see how their life be enriched by rambling over my photos and where I went to school if they never ring me or call me for lunch.

Sun in Capri

As an older lemon - well not too old but getting there :-) would it be that bad if someone did block you on FB? Surely a friend is only a friend if both parties want the "friendship". I have a FB account but deactivated it recently because as Amber Amber says, what is the point of having photos etc shared if these people don't bother to give you any real time to even meet for a coffee. I wonder what is the average number of real friends people have! I think as you get older the number diminishes as we become more discerning.

Cantremember

Everyone who thinks FB friends list is everything should meditate on this daily.

http://short-jokes-quotes.com/joke/index.php/facebook-friends-funeral/

Samp943

shyuser wrote: »

OP here again.
Thanks for the info.

Well I can definitely see their profile while logged into facebook along with the indication that a friend request is sent (i.e pending).
The oddity about the suggested friends is that a fair chunk of the request recipient's friends showed up on my suggested friends until about 9am this morning.

They probably didn't block you per se, but they may have ignored your friend request. I know when I get them from random people that I don't know/people with whom I don't really care about keeping in contact, I press ignore. The person who sent the request doesn't know that I've ignored it, I'm pretty sure it just stays at pending for them, but it doesn't mean that they've been blocked.

I'd strongly advise leaving this person alone, especially if you don't actually know them, and switching off Facebook.

LegacyUser

Yeah going by the replies here it doesn't sound like the person blocked you. They might have ignored it, or maybe they only log into Facebook rarely and haven't even seen it yet! When you wrote your post here only a day at most had gone by since you sent the request.

I have something a bit more embarrassing that might make you feel a little better about your own situation. I'm a mature student and had never ever had a facebook or any type of social media account ever. After finally giving into requests from friends and a few classmates, I finally made one a couple of months ago.

So I made one, sent requests to my close friends outside college first, all were delighted I had finally made an account and had great fun sending me pictures on it. Then I sent a few requests to my good friends in college, all added and after that point I started receiving a few requests from classmates that I didn't know that well because I must have appeared on their mutual friends timeline or something. I had always maintained that having hundreds of friends on facebook was ridiculous and that I'd only ever add people who I was really friends with and knew well. However when I got these requests from classmates, I thought that well even though I'm not massively close with all of these people, I know them all well enough to chat to each day, and they are all nice people so I accepted no problem.

I began to notice that everytime I added someone, I had more and more mutual friends with each of them. My class has only over 50 people so it became obvious that pretty much 99% of the class seemed to be friends with each other. So everytime my "people you may know"thing listed a classmate, I sent a request. I'm not hugely familiar with facebook etiquette but it seemed like the sociable, friendly maybe even polite thing to do, in that I thought I might look rude for adding some and not others in such a small class, seeing as everyone seemed to be friends with everyone on it anyways even people who didn't hang around together....

All my classmates even the ones I'm not close to accepted very soon after, and several even sent me little welcome to facebook private messages.

Here's where it gets embarrassing. I had clicked a request to one girl from my class who showed up in my people I know list. Didn't think of it again, but was playing around on facebook several hours later and saw that she had appeared in my list of people you may know list again. I thought "oh I thought I sent *Mary a request, I must not have clicked it", went to my activity log to check and there was no record of me having sent her a friend request, so I just clicked on her again to send her a request.

About 20-40 mins later there she appears again in my "people you may know, send request?" list. This time I knew for certain I had sent it, checked my activity log again and again there was no record of me having sent the request. After doing a bit of googling I learnt that when someone deletes your friend request you will receive no notification, but facebook also removes the record of you having sent the request from your activity log.

So I had sent this poor girl not just one but TWO friend requests in the space of a few hours, both of which she had deleted. So fcuking embarrassing. This is a girl I share classes with 5 days a week and could easily end up working in group work together. I had to see her even the next day.

I'm not very close to this girl but have chatted to her a good few times casually over the years, have never had any type of falling out with her, and would probably have classed her as friendly acquaintance/classmate. Her other closest friends added me too, so I don't think I've ever done anything to offend her, I actually have no problem with her and think she seems pretty sound. At first I thought that maybe it was because I am using a nickname and not my real name that she deleted the requests, but everyone else knew it was me and I have a picture up.

Now I just think that maybe she sticks by what I had originally planned to do, and only adds people who she is really close genuine friends with. I've absolutely no problem if this is the case and actually think she probably has the right idea to do so. My own list won't be extending past my classmates and my close friends.

Why I was so embarrassed though, is because I think she must think I was being so pushy by sending her two friend requests in the space of a few hours, and I wonder does she go around telling people that I didn't accept her first friend rejection and sent another.
(when really it was just by pure accident and misunderstanding that I sent her 2)

I'm not bothered much about it now but I felt very embarrassed at the time and part of me actually wanted to apologise to her for sending 2 requests that I really hadn't meant to.
Instead though, I'm just never going to speak of it ever and just act completely normal and friendly around her and hope she doesn't think I was trying to deliberately pester her with requests in some way. Mortifying though.......