Facebook friends requests

FB suggests people you may know

Maybe this person got you as a potential person they might know so clicked the request

Easily dealt with. Just say no.

Never accept friends if you don’t know them it’s very easy to say no and delete
Choose your own friends
No one knows what reasons people have Maybe they have a mutual friend but unless you want them to see what you and your real friends write just delete.... simples

I simply ignore friends requests.

Over the years I have had a couple of really weird friend requests from people I don't know, seemingly from abroad. I delete the friend request rather than just ignore it.

I have noticed at work that when someone new comes, after a couple of weeks they are FB friends with lots of people in the office. I ignore their request.

For me FB is quite private so my FB friends are those I really know and see in real life, and some long distance family. There are a very few friends I have never met, but we met on a private support forum and had much in common at one time, with what our children were doing.

Also be aware of possible scams when someone seems to have been hacked. I had a Friend request from my BIL, but although the name was the same, it did not have his picture, just a silhouette. I deleted it. I was already friends with him anyway.

If I receive a FB friend request, I use Google images to do a reverse look-up of the profile picture. Sometimes (often?) the image has been lifted from the internet to decorate a fake FB profile. In such cases, I report them to FB as fraud.