Adding friends on Facebook

You are probably stuck, because unless you can get the new friends to also hide their notifications from this person, those notifications will go out.

It's a pair of notifications that normally go out when we add friends.

If you add my friend Dave, then Facebook has two changes to its database:

• pennie added Dave as a friend
  
• Dave added pennie as a friend

I am Dave's friend so I get a notification that he has changed things on his account, unless he takes steps to hide that (most people don't).

One thing to throw out there about Facebook - over 1.4 Billion (yes, that's with a B) users are on it. Even if you don't explicitly tell someone that you are on FB, most people will dope that out on their own. It's a lot like hiding the fact that you have a street address or a phone number in a directory somewhere.

Why not just openly friend these people and block the other person? They will get a notification, e. g. "Dave added pennie as a friend" but that'll be it. It might even be more subtle than that, and just a notification of "Dave added three friends".

Apologies for the late response. Thank you so very much for taking the time out to explain all that in detail. Thank you thank you thank you

Oh, my pleasure