I would like to propose something that i hope the tengaged moderators look at.
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This effects me highly because i am a white. You can be friends with someone without them being friends with you. Wouldn't it be better if you send a friend request and then they had to accept/reject it to be friends? Because it is sometimes hard to get both people to send requests, and this makes it so that both people become friends immediately. Also this would be good for people to reject others who they don't want as their friend, as well as stopping others for spamming people through their huge "friend" list.
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(if they don't even accept, how is that person their friend for sure?)
just a proposition that I believe would make things easier. Please look into this if you can.