Company FB Page Automatically Friend-Requesting Admins' Contacts
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Hola,
So today we added 3 or 4 admins to our company FB page. Our company FB consists of a 'profile' and that 'profile' has create a FB 'page' for the business.
All of a sudden, the profile (not the company 'page') started to get a new friends. We thought this was weird as we weren't using this for promotion, we were using the company FB page. Anyway, when we dug a little deeper, we found the profile had automatically sent friend requests to all of the admins' contacts (around 2,000 people!). When we checked the friend request page, we realised we can't cancel all the requests, they have to be done individually!
Why would FB do this? It might not be so bad if it was actually inviting the admins' contacts to 'like' the business page, but it's just adding them to the main profile's friend list. The only solution we can find is to deactivate/delete the profile and keep the company page with all the admin attached.
Any ideas on this one? It's very weird and now it just looks like our fleldgling business is spamming people!
Cheers,
Lewis
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Hi all,
Like I say, I was added as admin and I didn't even access the account and all my personal FB friends were sent friend requests. The only thing I did was check on my phone and read a notification to let me know I'd been added as admin. We don't have any third party apps running, and we can't locate any type of settings that would allow FB to automatically friend request all of the admins' contacts. Weird.
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Hrm...I haven't really heard of this happening without an admin sending out requests. You might followup with your fellow admins.
There are also apps that sometimes do this automatically for people. So you'll want to make sure that none of those are installed on the profile.
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I've never heard of this before and I have created quite a few FB pages.
I would of suggested the same thing as Monica, maybe you clicked something you wasn't meant to but as you are saying you didn't I would try contacting FB - but in my experience it takes a while for them to get back to you.
Look on there developers forum and ask the same question - you might find others who have had the similar experience and got a solution.
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Hi Monica,
I'm one of the admins, and I'm sat next to another, and neither of us reached out to our friends... yet every single one of our FB friends received requests.
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It sounds like there was the option to find similar friends or get friend suggestions. Are you sure the admins didn't reach out to their friends? FaceBook doesn't generally send automated friend requests.
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