Your name isn't so unusual as to be globally rare. While a handful of
them are undoubtedly spam, the great majority are undoubtedly from folks
who know and are searching for a "John Hudson" somewhere in the
universe. Unfortunately most of those folks are not selective about who
they hit the "friend" button or get frustrated with the mondo list "John
Hudson" returns (tried it, it is a MONDO list). The easiest thing for
the lame and lazy is blindly hitting the "friend" button as quickly as
possible on all of them and let the recipients of the emails do the
filtering.
That's been my experience as my name is not a rare one either. If I
don't recognize who the person is, I just "Not Now" the friend request
which hides it. The hidden ones can be viewed and those will have a
"delete request" button. You can go into (from your Facebook page):
Account->Account Settings->Notifications
In the first section of email notifications, the second item listed is
"Adds you as a friend." Uncheck the box and Facebook will not send you
any emails notifying you of "friend requests" which is what this is
for. Why they label it that way is beyond me as it's not patently clear
what that setting is for. I don't recommend unchecking the others that
are checked by default. This also means you won't know if someone who
does know you sends a "friend request" unless you're on Facebook and
notice a number next to "Friends" on the upper left side. That's the
number of open "friend requests" that you have not accepted, hidden,
deleted, etc. If you ignore it complete, that will simply grow, and
grow, and grow, never shrinking. If you ignore a request from a relative
or someone who knows you well, that could be perceived as a snub or
perhaps you're pissed with them for some reason. For that reason I don't
recommend completely ignoring "friend requests" even if you turn off
email notifications about them.
You can also limit who can send you a "friend request" to just "friends
of friends" which means they must already be a "friend" of someone who
is your "friend."
Privacy Settings->Connecting on Facebook "View Settings" link->Send
You Friend Requests (2nd item in list)
Doing that is a pretty restrictive filter. Facebook is a "social
network" and the "friend request" is a critical to forming the social
network connections between people who know each other, or want to know
each other. If you need to "block" a specific person, you can also do
that in the privacy settings but I would be cautious about blocking a
name as it will block ***everyone*** with that name and Facebook does
not enforce unique names on accounts. There are a bazillion "John
Hudson" and just as many "John Lind."
-- John
On 5/26/2011 6:08 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> Several times a week I receive messages from Facebook telling me that I have
> yet to respond to "Friends" who have searched out my name. The only issue is
> that I have never heard of these so called "Friends".
>
> Question ........ is there any way in which I can block Facebook from
> sending me these annoying and unwanted emails ?
>
> jh
>
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