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I agree with the above but on the other hand, if I was searching for places to stay in a city and found out that an old friend of mine was on Airbnb for that city, I would jump at the chance. I haven't used Airbnb but I would really push an initiative to feature friends on the site via FB connect.

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Friends don't generally charge each other money to stay at their place though, right?

Or maybe that's a difference between close friends and acquaintances--and many people have a lot of acquaintances for Facebook friends, so I can see it working out.

Maybe not a 1st degree friend but a friend of a friend or something like this.

A feature that finds out the "shortest chain" friend that rents out an apartment in your destination city would be interesting. But you need a social graph for that.

Sounds like a facebook app worth making. Rent out rooms to people that are at most 3 hops removed from you on FB?

Check out SecondPorch (secondporch.com) for a pretty nice execution of that concept, built around FB Connect.

If I was Airbnb I would acquire the above.

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