[h00k]

So, what's the point?

[hugh3]

Well, maybe you got hired by facebook but can't remember.

If you check this and it says yes, you'd better hurry up and go to work!

[flyt]

is_fb_employee() is an internal FB function that can be used to gate features to employees only on facebook.com.

[Steve0]

It's related to release management, see this video: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977... .

In short: FB employees get to see the new features first, and are encouraged to submit bug reports.

[untog]

I imagine there would be some utility in knowing whether FB employees use your site/app. Though there'd be some complex cross-domain issues to solve first.

[seanalltogether]

Honestly I'm not sure. Facebook's crossdomain policy disallows access from external domains, so you can't load this from a random Flash or JS script.

[gibybo]

Hm, I think you can still invoke it jsonp style and overload the Object constructor in older browsers though, right? This would not only tell you whether they were a FB employee, but perhaps more importantly, their facebook UID without needing them to agree to any OAuth access.

[dbloom]

That only works if it's surrounded by parenthesies. A bare object literal is not syntactically valid JavaScript.

[sxtxixtxcxh]

i think jquery can deal with a straight json response, but i may be wrong.

[ristretto]

I assume there's a flash app in the company intranet which checks if you're still hired every hour.