COMMENTS:

  1. you are old. very very old. At least you don't have students trying to become your facebook friend. Blech.

    • – Monica LaBarge
    • October 30, 2007

  2. "...ad-industry executives familiar with the company's plans said the social network is looking to better use the data its users voluntarily offer up on their profiles... Facebook could use some of what it knows about people -- and their relationships with others on the site, what is known as the "social graph" -- to target them off Facebook as well." <a href="adage.com/.../article

    From what I can tell, I believe the friend request information specification works like this. Someone, Joe, requests someone else, Suzie, as a friend. Suzie is then asked to specify how they know Joe but can decline to. Then Joe is asked to confirm the details and can at this point approve or edit them. So, in short people can see the details you select about how you know them. And, if you view your friends list, anyone who has chosen to specify should have the details under their image in that list.

    • – Jen Wakeman
    • October 31, 2007

  3. Many Facebook users use the "Friend Detail Request" feature for all contacts. It helps maintain the social timeline feature.

    Personally, I dislike the feature for 2 reasons:

    1) The privacy concerns you bring up.

    2) The way FB implemented the feature, whereby you select answers from check boxes rather than typing them in free form. I think this causes misleading details in some instances.

    It can be amusing (and time consuming!) to negotiate "the details" back and forth because both parties must agree.

  4. Here's that link I tried to post earlier.

    The quote in my previous comment was from an AdAge Article located here: adage.com/.../article

    • – Jen Wakeman
    • November 1, 2007