Friend request

A Friend request (also known as FR) is a method to obtain friends. Obtaining 20 friends will give the user the Friendship Badge.

Function
Friend requests are started by looking at a user's profile and clicking the "Send Friend Request" button. It used to be possible to accompany the friend request by a message for users 13 years old or older. The user the friend request has been sent to has the choice of accepting or declining the request. If the user accepts the friend request, a message is sent to the requester to notify him about this. If it is declined, a message is sent to the requester notifying them of this.

ROBLOX also allows the user to send friend requests in-game. This can be done by clicking the player's name on the leaderboard and sending the request, to accept or decline these in-game friend requests, you can either click on the square in the right saying "(player's name) sent you a friend request" or click on the leaderboard and do the same there but people think friend requests are annoying because they hate the player or don't accept friend requests.

Due to an update named the friends and followers update released somewhere in the beginning of 2015, players can only have 200 friends. This started a big controversy due to that players who previously had thousands of friends now only had 200 friends.



Bugs

 * Friend requests could not be sent through the leaderboard during the Egg Hunt 2013 and 2014.
 * Sometimes, when a user opens the friend request options when you click the player in-game, it can be almost impossible to remove the options by clicking anywhere on screen.
 * Sometime around 2012, there was a bug that let users accept friend requests without that user having sent a friend request in the first place.
 * At the start of February 2016 and still not patched, Guest we're able to send friend request sometimes.

Criticism
Some players can be annoyed by friend requests. Players (especially newbies) often annoy other players by sending them friend requests and re-sending quickly if declined. Newbies often do this because they want more friends, or they just want to annoy the player by doing so. Players doing this are often criticized as "Noobs" or "3-5 year olds".

This can be especially annoying in places with the mouse pointer locked at a certain area, often at the center, meaning the only way they can decline or accept it is to enter the ingame menu and do it from there, often happening in first person shooter games such as daxter33's game "Paintball!" and various other first person shooters.