# Friend requests

> Understand how friend requests are sent, received, and managed in the Friends service.

A friend request is a request from one user to another user to create a friendship [relationship](./relationships.md). From the current user's perspective, there are two types of friend requests: incoming friend requests and outgoing friend requests.

An **incoming friend request** is a friend request the current user receives from another user. These requests go into the current user's **incoming friend requests list** until they respond to the request.

An **outgoing friend request** is a friend request the current user sends to another user. These requests go into the **incoming friend requests list** of the receiving user until they respond to the request.

When a user receives a friend request, they can respond to the request in the following ways:

* Accept the friend request. Accepting a friend request adds the user to the current user's [friends list](./friends-list.md).
* Remove the friend request. Removing the friend request from the friend request list effectively ignores the friend request.
* Block the user who sent the friend request. Blocking the user adds the user to the current user's [block list](./block-list.md).