friend request?

When I go to the person's page It says request sent but the person appears in my status updates saying what they are doing. Anyone know why?

not sure it happens to me as well i can see other people stats yet they dont accept my request wierd what your name on there

I've had that same experience and I wish i knew why it was happening.

This is from the facebook help page.

When you send a friend request to a person, public stories about them (stories that have the privacy set to "Everyone") may appear in your News Feed. This way you don’t have wait for them to respond to your friend request to see their public updates. Please note that News Feed will never show stories that a non-friend wouldn’t ordinarily be able to see. People who have yet to accept your friend requests will also appear on the Friends page. Here, you can add them to Friend Lists.

If you don’t want to see stories from a person who has yet to accept your friend requests, you can hide them from your News Feed by placing your cursor to the right of a story about them and clicking the "Hide" link that appears. Alternatively, you can remove them as a friend by clicking the "X" next to their name on the Friends page.

Thanks Mary! I appreciate the information!