Facebook Fights Social Spam with "Mark You Don't Know" Response to Friend Requests
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With more than 350 million monthly active users around the world, Facebook has a lot of users who want to make new friends. And now the company is testing out a feature to make friending a little more meaningful. Once you mark “ignore” on a friend request, you’ll see a new option in addition to being able to report the person for abuse or spam: “Mark that you don’t know” them.
Facebook has never shown friend rejections; rather, the person who made the friend request just never gets a confirmation.

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