Running with a pug group, where some/many of the pugs are regulars. We all get along, it’s good times. One of them sends me a friend request! nice!
Except it’s his full account info. “Friend#2244”
So if I hit “accept”, doesn’t that mean I’m sharing my full account name? Which means he’ll see ALLLLLL of my chrs any time I’m on??
Not to sound like a jerk, but I just want to have internet-friends with CERTAIN chrs, not my WHOLE ACCOUNT.
Isn’t there a way to adjust this? Or do I have to tell him to just send me a friend request from JUST his chr, not his account?
50 looks but no one knows answer to this?
no one knows~
maybe something a future privacy setting could address. “only allow character friend requests”
Hello,
If a player adds you to friends with either a BattleTag or their Real ID, You’ll be able to see all of his friends or vice-versa.
If you don’t want specific friends to see your friends list, You’ll need to add their character specifically as a friend in-game.
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correct, thats what battlenet friend requests are. you accept the request and you can see when theyre playing diablo or wow classic and they can see when youre on your moonguard alliance alt
if you want to only have him on the one character you did the run with then just decline the request and have him add your character to his friends list 
no friend request required to add a character name
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I believe that if you are on any of your characters they will see you and which one you are on. If you are in another game (like Hearthstone or Diablo) you will show up as being there too and they can contact you through real id chat. There may be a loophole somewhere but I cannot recall what it is.
Give nobody nothing on this game or rl too many scammers out in the world now.
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This is correct. Any friends you have added via BattleTag or Real ID, Will be able to see all of the games you are playing on Battle.net. You will also be able to see all of the games they are playing as well.
As @Battlemaster said, just decline the BattleTag request and manually add the character name to your friends list.
This used to work for me, but of late I cannot add characters to my friends list unless they’re on the same realm as me; when I add [charname]-[realm] it always tells me “not found” even though they’re still in party with me.
As far as I know, if you add them to your battle.net friend list, they can see you on any character. If you add them by e-mail it will provide their real life name instead of their Battle tag.
But there is an “Appear offline” mode that I know worked in Overwatch, it may work for WoW too.
That being said, you will appear offline to everyone and not just the individual.
There is an ‘appear offline’ that you can toggle through the battle net app, but not in game. I know this because I am antisocial.
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So when you toggle it in the battle.net launcher and then launch WoW you aren’t invisible? Boy that’s lame.
you can also avoid this by going into offline/invisible mode in the launcher
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when you toggle appear offline, you’ll send 2-4 “has gone offline” to your friends ingame so its usually easy to tell when someone is appearing offline due to the multiple logout message 
You toggle it in the launcher and it keeps the ‘invisible’ flag after you launch the game. There’s no in-game button with the same functionality, though.
So you can invisible via the launcher but not via WoW itself
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I had no idea about that! But hey, as long as they don’t bother me.
Your bnet friends will see your status, no matter what. Playing Hearthstone? They see you. Playing Overwatch? They see you. Logged off? They see that you’re not online, too…they see EVERYTHING
They’ll be able to see your battletag, which isn’t really any different from adding someone on something like Steam or Origin or any other game platform you care to name.
In 99.9% of cases they won’t care and it won’t be an issue. They added you because they liked playing with you and want to do so in the future.
Thanks all for the replies. We just added each other as friends. 
If you don’t want them to be your battle.net friend, discord friend for second option.
AFAIK: If you keep the Appear Offline toggled on, your battletag will be offline. However, if someone has added a toon to their list, then if you log into that toon, that toon will appear to be online for them - regardless of whether or not you are battletag friends.
Also, make you have your real name hidden.