{"id":1102,"date":"2009-08-02T01:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2010-06-04T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T21:43:08","slug":"how-to-cancel-pending-friend-requests-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2009\/08\/02\/how-to-cancel-pending-friend-requests-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to cancel a friend request you have already sent on Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend request got stuck? Feel like you are missing the attention staying at the bottom of the &#8220;pending friend request&#8221; list? <\/p>\n<p>Or, like in my case, just hate the &#8220;Awaiting friend confirmation&#8221; message?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-awaiting-friend-confirmation.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook - Awaiting friend confirmation\" title=\"Facebook - Awaiting friend confirmation\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-awaiting-friend-confirmation.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-awaiting-friend-confirmation-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can now cancel a pending friend request if you like.<\/p>\n<p>To cancel a pending friend request, first click the &#8220;<strong>Account > Edit Friends<\/strong>&#8221; link on the top right corner.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Facebook-Edit-Friends.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Facebook Edit Friends\" width=\"266\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Facebook-Edit-Friends.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Facebook-Edit-Friends-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now start typing the name in the &#8220;<strong>Search Friends<\/strong>&#8221; box.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-search-friends.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook - Search Friends\" title=\"Facebook - Search Friends\" width=\"486\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-search-friends.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-search-friends-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will bring up the pending friend request for that person.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-priyanka-chowdhury.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook - Priyanka Chowdhury\" title=\"Facebook - Priyanka Chowdhury\" width=\"500\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-priyanka-chowdhury.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-priyanka-chowdhury-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on the &#8220;<strong>X<\/strong>&#8221; icon (Remove Request) next to the person.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-remove-friend-request.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook - Remove Friend Request\" title=\"Facebook - Remove Friend Request\" width=\"654\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-remove-friend-request.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-remove-friend-request-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Confirm the friend request removal.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-confirm-friend-request-removal.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook - Confirm Friend Request Removal\" title=\"Facebook - Confirm Friend Request Removal\" width=\"500\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-confirm-friend-request-removal.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-confirm-friend-request-removal-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Done! If you again visit that profile, you will notice that the pending request got canceled.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-pending-friend-request-canceled.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook - Pending friend request canceled\" title=\"Facebook - Pending friend request canceled\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-pending-friend-request-canceled.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/facebook-pending-friend-request-canceled-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<strong>Add as Friend<\/strong>&#8221; button shows up again. You can add the person again if you want to. (Not in my case though)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend request got stuck? Feel like you are missing the attention staying at the bottom of the &#8220;pending friend request&#8221; list? Or, like in my case, just hate the &#8220;Awaiting friend confirmation&#8221; message? You can now cancel a pending friend request if you like. To cancel a pending friend request, first click the &#8220;Account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","category-tutorials","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}