Recently, all of a sudden, Facebook started bombarding me every day with notifications containing new friend suggestions.
Thanks, but no thanks!
Fortunately, there’s a way to stop this notification, and I’ll show you how to do it on both the website and mobile app.
For the website version, I’ll use New Facebook, not Classic, since it will be removed soon anyway. But the process is almost the same.
Stop New Friend Suggestion Notifications on the Facebook Website
If you want to turn off friend suggestion notifications on the Facebook website, then here’s what you need to do.
Step 1 – Access Settings
Click on the drop-down arrow found in the top-right corner, and access Settings & Privacy.
Then, click on Settings.
Step 2 – Access Notifications
Click on Notifications on the left sidebar.
Then, on the right, click on People You May Know, and either turn off the friend suggestion notifications entirely or only choose to stop receiving them in specific places.
That’s it! After I disabled them, I didn’t receive any more notifications of that type.
Stop New Friend Suggestion Notifications on the Facebook App
Here’s what you need to do to stop friend suggestion notifications on Facebook’s mobile app.
Step 1 – Access Settings
Click on the hamburger menu and go to Settings & Privacy > Settings.
Step 2 – Access Notifications
Scroll down to the Notifications section and select Notification Settings.
Step 3 – Access ‘People You May Know’
Select People You May Know from the Notifications Settings.
Step 4 – Turn off ‘People You May Know’ suggestions
Turn off the new friend suggestion notifications entirely or only from specific places.
That’s it! That type of notifications should stop now.
That’s a Wrap
I hope you found this guide useful and the solution worked for you as well!
If you have thoughts, questions, or want to specify something, please leave a comment below or send me a message using the contact page.
This was awesome. So clearly written, every step and aligned with how things currently are on FB. Of course, FB doesn’t want this to be simple to find on its website or on Google so thank you for being the wise person to solve this annoying intrusion by FB. Thank you so much. 🙂
Thank you! I’m happy that you liked the post and it helped you out. 😀
Wonderfully explained and worked instantly! Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
Thanks! I’m glad it helped you out!
On the Facebook website, you can also open the Notifications pane, click the ellipsis (…) in the top right corner of that pane and then select the Notification settings.
That’s true 😀 Thanks for pointing it out.
does this also stop me from being suggested to other people as a friend?
I can’t tell you exactly, but I don’t think so. I don’t see a reason for that to happen. I think there are other settings to stop yourself from being suggested to others.
I did all this and I still see a pile of new friend suggestions in the Friends block on the app every day. I don’t get notifications but it would sure be nice to not see the big list at all.
I don’t think that’s possible to turn off. This answer from Facebook is a year old, but I believe it still applies today.