[timcederman]

Facebook Connect is fantastic if you want to build an app that requires access to a user's social graph without being obtrusive. Anything else and it feels a little pointless.

That said, there are a million good reasons to access that social graph. We wanted to use it so that when you signed up to our site, we could see which companies your friends had worked at in the present/past, and thus show you jobs your friends may be able to refer you to. Since FB didn't accept us to their program, we had to build the connection infrastructure from scratch which a) sucked up a lot of time and resources and b) will never be as successful as using an existing network.