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Getting round the limitations of Facebook as a symmetrical network.

This is NOT a how-to.

The term symmetrical network refers to the fact that currently Facebook, unlike Twitter and more recently Google Buzz, requires authorisation from both parties before one exposes the bulk of ones activity to a second party.

• Person A requests friendship from person B
• If person B accepts the friend request then both A and B's activity is exposed to both parties (you can tweak privacy settings but the assumtion is that A and B know each other and want to share information or keep in touch).

The exception to this has been Facebook pages (Facebook's profiles for businesses) which allows people to "Fan" a page and doesn't require the company (page) to have a relationship with the fan.

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