What is the difference between friend request and friend suggestion?

The suggestions made are only suggestions and Facebook does not send friend requests to those they suggest to you. Facebook also periodically suggests you engage with those already on your friends list whom you may not have interacted with lately.
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What is the difference between a suggestion and a request?

As verbs the difference between request and suggest

is that request is to express the need or desire for while suggest is to imply but stop short of saying explicitly.
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What does it mean when you get a Facebook friend suggestion?

Friend suggestions come from things like: Having friends in common. Your profile information and networks (example: your current city, school or work). Your Facebook activity (example: joining groups or being tagged in the same photo or post).
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What does a friend suggestion mean?

Friend suggestions can be created by the fact that you have mutual friends, that you share common interests, because you have been looking at someone's profile but not sending a friend request, or because they have been looking at your profile and not sending a friend request.
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Does friend suggestion mean someone looked at your profile?

The first name that pops up is either the last person you looked at, or the last person who looked at you. Facebook also gives you friend suggestions; those are people who may have been looking at your profile.
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What is the difference between friend request and friend suggestion on Facebook?



Can you tell when someone searches you on Facebook?

No, Facebook doesn't let people track who views their profile. Third-party apps also can't provide this functionality. If you come across an app that claims to offer this ability, please report the app.
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How do you know who stalks your Facebook?

No, Facebook does not give users the option to see who viewed their profile. Third party apps associated with Facebook also don't provide this info.
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What happens when you remove friend suggestions on Facebook?

This will stop all notifications. With this setting disabled, Facebook will no longer suggest other user accounts for you to add as friends on the Facebook website or in the Facebook mobile app. If you want to add friends on Facebook, you'll need to search for and add them manually.
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How do you get a friend suggestion on Facebook?

People You May Know suggestions come from things like having mutual friends or being a part of the same network. We regularly update People You May Know to improve suggestions. However, sometimes we might get it wrong and show someone you don't know or want to add as a friend.
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How do you send a friend suggestion on Facebook?

How to Recommend Someone Become Friends With Someone Else on Facebook
  1. Log in to Facebook and visit your friend's timeline. Click the down-facing arrow with a cog icon beside the "Message" button.
  2. Choose "Suggest Friends" from the drop-down list. ...
  3. Click "Send Suggestions" to send the friend suggestion.
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What does it mean when you get a friend request from a friend?

In short, the “duplicate” friend requests your friends are receiving aren't duplicates at all. They are being sent from an entirely different account. What's happening is some scammers on Facebook are cloning (i.e. making fraudulent copies) of accounts, NOT hacking the original accounts.
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What is the difference between request and offer?

As verbs the difference between request and offer

is that request is to express the need or desire for while offer is (lb) to present (something) to god as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
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How do I remove myself from friend suggestions?

How Do I Prevent Facebook from Suggesting Me to Others?
  1. Login to your account, click on the drop-down menu (upper right-hand corner), and select Settings & Privacy.
  2. Then go to Privacy settings and select How people can find and contact you.
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Why does Facebook keep suggesting the same person?

In its help section, Facebook says its suggestions are based on “mutual friends, work and education information, networks you're part of, contacts you've imported and many other factors”.
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How do you know if someone is searching for you on the Internet?

Ways to Try to Figure Out Who's Googling You
  1. Figure Out Who Googles You Using Social Media. Searching for yourself on, say, Facebook or Twitter may show you where you've been mentioned. ...
  2. Figure Out Who Googles You Using Google Alerts. ...
  3. Figure Out Who Googles You Using Google Alerts.
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What is the difference between suggestion and offer?

An offer is an expression of willingness to do something. A suggestion is usually an expression of an idea for someone else to do something.
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What does it mean request an offer?

A request for offer (RFO) is a competitive procurement process used by organizations to solicit the submission of proposals from interested parties in response to a scope of services.
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How will you make request give some examples?

Making Request:
  1. Can you show me your photo album, please?
  2. Will you lend me your book, please?
  3. Could you possibly show me the way to the post office, please?
  4. Would you help me with this exercise, please?
  5. Would you mind lending me your pen, please?
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Why did someone get a friend request that I didn't send?

The most common is that they want to spam all of your friends with ads. Or post “click bait” posts, propaganda, or fake news to get people to click (sometimes to stir up controversy – in your name), and sometimes share links that can take them to a site infected with a virus.
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Can someone become your friend on Facebook without you accepting them?

This can happen if you (or someone else using your account) sent a request by mistake , or accept their request by mistake. Or a changed name, can also confuse. To clear this, you should check the person's profile and email notifications. Once you figure out the correct name by seeing mutual friends and other info.
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Why do I get so many fake Facebook friend requests?

The influx of friend requests for verified users is "likely due to recent search changes" on the platform, Facebook says, which were intended to more prominently surface search results for verified accounts over unverified ones.
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What happens when someone ignores your friend request?

They will not be notified that their friend request was declined, but they will be able to send you another friend request in the future. If you take no action on the request they've sent you, they will not be able send you another friend request.
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How do I know if someone deleted my friend request?

Look closely at the grey button beside the name of someone you sent a friend request to. If it still reads the friend request sent, the person has not yet confirmed or canceled your request. But if the name reads +1 add friend, then probably the said someone denied your request.
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How do you know if someone denied your friend request?

Look at the gray button next to the person's name. If the button reads "Friend Request Sent," the person has not yet accepted or declined your friend request. If the button reads "+1 Add Friend," the person denied your friendship request.
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How do you know if a friend request has been rejected?

Go to the Facebook home screen and click on the friends icon in the upper right hand corner. Then hit "Find Friends." There you will see all of the people waiting for you to accept their friend requests. But, if you hit the tiny "View Sent Requests" button at the top of the page, you can find out who's rejected you.
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