That’s the question. I don’t want to accept it, and I don’t want to delete it. What to do?
You delete it. The person who sent it isn’t informed of anything.
Or you can just ignore the request.
Accept the request. Then immediately block them.
I know you don’t want to delete it.
Is there a specific reason?
Deleting is making it just disappear.
Thank you. That’s my answer.
I think if you delete it, they can’t request again so they realize you’ve deleted it.
Yup. I have a grade school acquaintance who sent a friend request, I declined it. The next day, there it is again. So now that request lives there so that they don’t send it again.
I think (I may try to verify it today) that they can “resend” the request. They don’t know it’s been deleted, just that it hasn’t been accepted.
From the Facebook help article:
When you delete a friend request, the person who sent you the request isn’t notified and can’t send you another request for one year. If you block someone they can’t send more friend requests.
Munch, I’m not sure how that happened but it shouldn’t have happened. Perhaps you didn’t properly delete the request and it never went away.
Back when I wrote a music column for the paper I got tons of friend requests from musicians, which I usually accepted. Some, however, I didn’t want on there (like one who threatened my nephew). I found that if I deleted the request they would just send a new one. I just stopped deleting them so they just stayed in limbo. I know they say they can’t re-send one for a year. Facebook lies.
With all due respect, if that is your answer, it would have better to ask that as your question.