Random Friend Requests

You can turn off friends requests in privacy settings.

https://www.chess.com/settings/privacy

Definitely seems that way. I’ve noticed the same thing. I often accept friend requests after playing people but why are am I getting requests out of nowhere all of a sudden?

That's happening to me as well, and I don't know how. Random people I don't know keep sending me frend requests, or more often, club invites.

This happens unexpectedly to everyone, literally 🙄

its cos you appear on their "recommended friends" list and they just want more friends

Fun!

I had this same problem years ago, so I just started messaging back a conversation of curiosity on why they send me a friend request. I would accept those who responded and I would decline the friend request from those who didn't reply after a while.

Another idea could be that you could write in your chess.com profile (ideally at the top), that you only accept friend requests from people you've played chess against. This way, people sending you random friend requests you can decline with the knowledge that they didn't even bother to read your profile.

Oh, also want to play one or two unrated games of live chess someday @texaspete so that we can become chess.com friends

Seriously though, I'd be open to playing some casual chess or chatting here and there. I'll let you message me back though, or have you send me a friend request - that way it isn't imposing. I can respect that different people have different criterion they are looking for in a chess.com friend.

This just started happening to me a couple of weeks or so ago. Definitely unwanted. Something changed somewhere because I have been here for years and never got a friend request from folks unless I had played them or I knew them from outside chess.com.

Getting friend requests from weirdos halfway across the world and strange people inviting me to join some weirdo club when I've never even interacted with them before. Yikes.

I had that for a while, it stopped some time ago thankfully. I have had many fun games and chats with people from all over the world but being bombarded with friend requests from people you haven't even played because they've clicked a button chess.com put in front of them is just an annoyance.

I had started doing friends, but then I realized that this isn't Facebook. I'm not here to socialize other than playing the game of chess. So I was a big meanie and unfriended everyone except for my one grandson that plays chess.

It appears that chess.com app just sent me a friend request only to get me to open my app and accept new terms. I think this is a story and I thought I would seek comment from chess.com and have been unsuccessful - P.s. the request was phony. 🤔

I've got the same thing here, though not as much as some of you seem to have gotten. I mostly just decline them, but I would like to know why random people send me friend requests or ask for me to join their clubs.

Oof that happens I hate it when people do that.

For me, the spate of random friend requests that started about a month ago only lasted for a week or so. I am now back to the desired state of (mostly) only receiving requests from people I have played.

The funny thing about the requests I received that the accouns were made only 1 or 2 days ago and some of them haven't even played a chess match

Don't know