Facebook has told the press they are interested in getting this information to use it for all the online shopping and advertisement reasons. Also saying that it could be a useful tool for some of their applications such as Farmville. Personally I think this is a little crazy. I don't know if I would feel comfortable lending out that information out to anyone let alone one of the biggest social networks in the world.
Read a great article on this by following the link below.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/01/18/facebook.phone.privacy/index.html?iphonefb
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