Making Friends Out of Your Users with the Friend's Dialog Box

One of my favorite calls is one that you can use with the FB.ui JavaScript method to send requests for friendship from user to user. The call is as simple as calling the friend's dialog box and passing it the ID of the user you want your user to be friends with. So, for instance, if you want to provide a list of other Inspirations users who aren't friends of your user, you could give your user the option to friend each of them, meeting new users of your application in the process. The code to do this is shown below. You can run this on your own site (http://developers.facebook.com/tools/console/) and see what it does, or see it in action at http://apps.facebook.com/inspirationsapp/friending.html:

<html>
<body>
<div id="fb-root_14_chapter-04"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script>
    FB.init({appId: '169764986370463', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml:
               true});
</script>
<h1>Inspirations</h1>
<div id="quote_14_chapter-04">
              <span id="facebook_stuff_14_chapter-04">
              <div id="profile_pic_14_chapter-04"><fb:profile-pic uid="683545112">
              </fb:profile-pic></div>
              <div id="profile_name_14_chapter-04"><fb:name uid="683545112" useyou="false"></fb:name>
              </span>
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." -Albert Einstein <div><a href="#" onclick="FB.ui({method: ...

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