Facebook Killing Traditional Friend Rejections

Don’t want to approve that new friend request because you don’t know the person well enough? Rather than clicking “Ignore” as was previously the case, Facebook is switching the button to “Not Now” and simply hiding the request indefinitely. Users can then choose to go back to those friend requests at a later date by clicking on “View Hidden Requests” on their requests page.

The shift is for a number of reasons. First, ignoring a friend request sometimes resulted in the person who made the request seeing that they can request a friend again.