Beware friend requests from unknown hotties who have lots of friends in common with you.
Once approved, Zuck the lawyer received up to 500 friend requests daily, mostly from overseas.
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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss keep sending friend requests to the court system and keep getting denied.
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Tyler is not accepting pokes or friend requests from strangers, but Cameron is.
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Out of politeness, I've accepted Facebook friend requests from any family members who have sent them.
Secondly, Rockmelt is integrating Facebook friend requests, messages and notifications directly into the browser.
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Teachers should reject friend requests or other contact with students on their personal accounts, the guidelines say.
Gates now has a public Facebook Page instead, where he no longer has to deal with friend requests.
He has had, and declined, friend requests on Facebook from venture capitalists.
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Readers: have you noticed the amount of unwanted or spam-like friend requests decrease on your own account over the past month of two?
Obvious clues include a user who has started several accounts using the same email address, or who has had lots of friend requests rejected.
Another option is to just ignore friend requests from family members.
And that, my friends, is a cautionary tale about accepting Facebook friend requests from random people from high school and college that you barely remember.
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Lillian Lowe, from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, says she has had hundreds of friend requests from around the world, though she appears not to have accepted any of them.
My other piece of advice when it comes to being social network savvy is to try to avoid becoming friends with or accepting random friend requests from potential criminals.
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Before you jump on me about how the SEC is just trying to protect investors from predatory Tweets and Facebook friend requests, consider that just35% of financial advisors use social media professionally.
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It can, definitively and without error, identify spoofed emails like the fake FedEx notice I had, or the fake LinkedIn messages, IRS notifications, friend requests etc. that weave their way into all of our inboxes every day.
And so he suggests some guidelines: It's OK for parents to require younger kids and teens to accept their friend requests, but kids should gain more freedom as they get older, just as they do in real life.
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If you're savvy enough to want to use the Facebook Mobile app, we're guessing you're savvy enough to get it up and running on your phone or portable -- so buying an additional device for responding to friend requests seems a little silly.
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Such networks recognise that people want to hobnob with a chosen few, not to be spammed by random friend-requests.
Zuckerberg said that in the past two months, the Site Integration and Graph Team at Facebook had been focusing on the issue of friend spam to decrease the amount of unwanted requests among the user base.
Monetary requests of any nature are likely to be more compelling when issued by a friend versus a stranger.
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