Yes, facebook asks you frequently to give it your address book so it can find people you know, and then it sends friend requests to every address there.
But you don't annoy people by turning them down, as facebook doesn't actively tell you that someone has declined a request. So if it sent requests you didn't even know about (which seems to happen often) they'd never notice that you declined.
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