Well, if the query for your relationship status comes as an automatically generated private message, you might enjoy the luxury of typing "Fuck the hell off!" yourself.

This is hilarious! I cannot believe that the designers at Facebook would be so uncouth!

And hey, why stop there?

If someone doesn't mention their job, we could have buttons that would allow us to ask their job title, where they work, how long they've worked there and how much they make.

Actually, Amy, I just checked and they do have buttons for all those things. You can "ask" about anyone's hometown, relationship, or job. Anything that they haven't shared on their "About" status now has an "Ask" button next to it.

Oy!

To extend Patrick's thought: I wonder when they'll have buttons to ask someone whether they were adopted, how often they and their spouse have sex, or how much money they have in the bank. And how long it will take to tie them into aome NSA database where it can just go fetch the answer itself. Prertty soon users won't even need to fill out a profile anymore. Genius!

The women will use the button to find out which guys are single, so they can avoid them.

You can ask them about any of the profile fields, I've seen.

I've seen "ask ..." links for job, education, phone, email, etc, exactly as Patrick said.

Or, Cousin Dave, the NSA could just harvest their information on you based upon the answers that Facebook users provide. (That's probably the whole reason the service was created.)