"Part of me is still mourning the loss of this old decades-long friendship, and I feel like I need to respond" to his ...

Meta said it's now fixed a Facebook bug that was sending automatic friend requests when users visited profiles through the app — which was bad news for anyone covertly visiting others ...

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who is unsure about re-connecting with an old friend after ...

Why am I suddenly getting hundreds of friend requests on Facebook? In recent days, several Facebook users have reported an unusual spike in friend requests, causing concern and uncertainty.

On May 12, 2023, claims began to spread across social media platforms that Facebook would send someone a friend request if you looked at their profile page. A TikTok post from May 12, 2023 said ...

that they received another friend request from me on Facebook. The hacker then, posing as a friend, told me they had had this problem and gave me a contact number for the Facebook official who had ...

Facebook users have been left devasted after a worrying glitch exposed exactly who they have been 'stalking' via the popular social media platform. The bug sent an instant friend request once a ...

In the funniest glitch to possibly grace the internet, a Facebook bug was recently caught auto-sending friend requests to accounts people had viewed. Yes, that means if you were randomly stalking ...

Lurkers beware — a Facebook glitch sent automatic friend requests to profiles that users clicked on. The glitch occurred as a result of an update to the Facebook app. While the bug was fixed ...

Update #2, 12 May, 2023 (01:44 PM ET): Meta has responded with the following official statement: ““We fixed a bug related to a recent app update that caused some Facebook friend requests to be ...

Last Friday, Facebook users discovered a bug that shattered their illusions of privacy—on the mobile app, friend requests were being sent to any profile visited. For people engaged in the ...