Please get rid of friend requests

 Domain wrote:

I dislike the fact that others need my permission to add me as a friend.  All the friendrequests from random people become very obtrusive to my Live Chess experience.  I don't mind that they want to add me to their friends list, but I don't want to be notified.

Conversely, I would like to be able to add people at my convenience without them being notified.

I can only imagine how bad it must be for the various staff, help, and titled players on this site.

1. You're no doubt aware that you can block Friend Requests, via your Privacy Settings?

INVITES 

Control which kinds of invites you want to allow/receive.

FRIENDS: allow others to send me a friend request

GAME CHALLENGES: allow others to challenge me to a game

JOIN GROUP: allow others to invite me to join a group

TOURNAMENTS: allow others to invite me to a tournament

2. You can TRACK someone, rather than inviting them to be a friend, which achieves part of your suggestion.

i dont do frends os i dont realy care

phoney friends with shifting alliances

Thanks all for your comments.  I am aware of privacy and alert settings.  Perhaps I should reiterate that I'd like to be able to add friends without them having to add me, and vice versa.

It's the forced mutual friendship aspect that I dislike.

want to be friends?

I think you mean it's the forced mutual agreement aspect that you dislike.  No-one is forcing you to be friends with anyone, but if I understand correctly you'd like to have the ability to auto-accept friend requests.

but what's friendship without the forced mutuality and guilt regarding one party wanting to desolve?  sounds like my everyday life (i kid i kid)...

... but i understand. You dont want to feel obliged or have someone else feel obliged as well.

Really your best bet is the settings. 

Sure.  Wait, we already are.  

That's basically it Kayt.  Finally someone understands.  

Did we ever get this stalker feature?

This is aimed at no one particular, but in regards to  the whole Friends issue, my question is this: If you want to be hanging on Facebook, then why are you wasting your time playing chess.

Block option I understand, because it gives the people with different views on sporting behaviour a way to deal with each other with minimum confrontation, Mod-bothering and frustration (especially since the site prevents you from swearing at the other guy ). I also appriciate the convenience of knowing when one of my friends, AKA someone I know personaly, is on-line, but the situation that Domain described, when bunch of people, who I assume are complete strangers to him, interrupt his live session with completely pointless requests just shows that there are people out there who come to a chess site because they want to find someone to braid their hair.