Rebuilding a friend community on Facebook

May 15, 2011 6:27 PM

So I tried to get off of Facebook forever about a month ago by deleting my account (not just deactivating it) and was successful: no more profile or contacts. However, since graduating from my MBA program, I feel the pull to get back on it. This time I started to focus on only adding my close friends and business school classmates, but when I added a bunch of people today I was given a few warnings about 'annoying or abusive behavior.' I naturally stopped sending friend requests, but now I'm wondering how soon can I add friends after such a warning and how does one go about rebuilding the friend base when Facebook hits you with these warnings? Thanks in advance for the response!
posted by arizona80 to Technology (5 answers total)

You have to wait anywhere from hours to days. It's not a big deal, if you're mass-adding friends, you should probably use one of their import options rather than adding them one at a time.
posted by empath at 6:45 PM on May 15, 2011

Have you thought about switching to Linkedin?
posted by Leezie at 6:46 PM on May 15, 2011

Response by poster: Thanks for the LinkedIn suggestion--already on it! I finally realized that I need Facebook since many of my friends are international and will use Facebook as a primary means to keep in touch.
posted by arizona80 at 6:52 PM on May 15, 2011

You should be able to add more friends once more people accept you as a friend, it goes by number of people you have pending approval.
posted by Autumn at 9:05 PM on May 15, 2011

The import function got me blocked for a few days five minutes after using it, arg!
posted by divabat at 3:10 PM on May 20, 2011