Facebook's "Skip This Step" Button Disappears

Facebook users are a vocal crowd, and the latest outcry occurred when the social network tried to trace connections between them.  According to company reps, it was only a glitch, and everything is now back to the way it was.

“The way it was”: when confirming a friendship, users would be asked how they knew the person - from school, work, etc. - but were also given the option of moving on without checking any box.  It was when the “skip this step” button disappeared that Facebook’s problems began.

“[I]f Google was the Database of Intentions and Facebook is the Database of Connections, then Facebook’s value is maximized if Facebook knows the nature of every single relationship within its database,” reasoned