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Update: Facebook's new hire Blake Ross reports in the comments that this is a bug and will be fixed. If only Facebook's bugs were as amusing as MySpace's.
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Argh. Facebook just removed the option to "Skip this Step" when adding a friend: you now have to state what your relationship is with that person before you can connect, then wait for them to confirm that relationship.
No doubt it's concerned with Facebook's aim to connect you to real life friends, but it's also super, super annoying when you have a big backlog of requests.