Here's another rule, I just wrote that someone else might like. When a new user registers, it checks whether he/she is my friend on Facebook. If so, he/she is automatically unblocked and added to a role. This makes sense on a blog-type of site.

Replace XXX by your user id on Facebook (http://socialmediaseo.net/2010/02/20/how-to-find-facebook-id/), and adapt the role...

array (
  'rules' => 
  array (
    'rules_unblock_facebook_friend' => 
    array (
      '#type' => 'rule',
      '#set' => 'event_user_insert',
      '#label' => 'Unblock user if my friend on Facebook',
      '#active' => 1,
      '#weight' => '0',
      '#categories' => 
      array (
      ),
      '#status' => 'custom',
      '#conditions' => 
      array (
        0 => 
        array (
          '#info' => 
          array (
            'label' => 'Is my friend on Facebook',
            'label callback' => false,
            'module' => 'PHP',
            'eval input' => 
            array (
              0 => 'code',
            ),
          ),
          '#name' => 'rules_condition_custom_php',
          '#settings' => 
          array (
            'code' => 'try {
    $fb = fb_api_init($fb_app);
    $data = fb_api(\'/me/friends\');
    $friends = $data[\'data\'];
    foreach ($friends as $friend) {
        if( $friend[\'id\'] == \'XXX\' ) {
            return true;
        }
    }
}
catch (FacebookApiException $e) {}
return false;',
            'vars' => 
            array (
            ),
          ),
          '#type' => 'condition',
          '#weight' => 0,
        ),
      ),
      '#actions' => 
      array (
        3 => 
        array (
          '#weight' => -2,
          '#type' => 'action',
          '#settings' => 
          array (
            'code' => 'user_user_operations_unblock(array($account->uid));',
            'vars' => 
            array (
              0 => 'account',
            ),
          ),
          '#name' => 'rules_action_custom_php',
          '#info' => 
          array (
            'label' => 'Unblock new user',
            'label callback' => false,
            'module' => 'PHP',
            'eval input' => 
            array (
              0 => 'code',
            ),
          ),
        ),
        0 => 
        array (
          '#type' => 'action',
          '#settings' => 
          array (
            'roles' => 
            array (
              0 => 8,
            ),
            '#argument map' => 
            array (
              'user' => 'account',
            ),
          ),
          '#name' => 'rules_action_user_addrole',
          '#info' => 
          array (
            'label' => 'Add user role facebook_friends',
            'label callback' => false,
            'arguments' => 
            array (
              'user' => 
              array (
                'type' => 'user',
                'label' => 'User whos roles should be changed',
              ),
            ),
            'module' => 'User',
          ),
          '#weight' => 0,
        ),
        1 => 
        array (
          '#type' => 'action',
          '#settings' => 
          array (
            'message' => 'You have been automatically unblocked and given some permissions, because you are Ingo\'s friend on Facebook.',
            'error' => 0,
            '#eval input' => 
            array (
              'rules_input_evaluator_php' => 
              array (
                'message' => 
                array (
                ),
              ),
            ),
          ),
          '#name' => 'rules_action_drupal_message',
          '#info' => 
          array (
            'label' => 'Show modified welcome message',
            'label callback' => false,
            'module' => 'System',
            'eval input' => 
            array (
              0 => 'message',
            ),
          ),
          '#weight' => 0,
        ),
        2 => 
        array (
          '#weight' => 0,
          '#info' => 
          array (
            'label' => 'Send a mail to the new user',
            'label callback' => false,
            'arguments' => 
            array (
              'user' => 
              array (
                'type' => 'user',
                'label' => 'Recipient',
              ),
            ),
            'module' => 'System',
            'eval input' => 
            array (
              0 => 'subject',
              1 => 'message',
              2 => 'from',
            ),
          ),
          '#name' => 'rules_action_mail_to_user',
          '#settings' => 
          array (
            'from' => '',
            'subject' => 'Your account on ingomueller.net has been unblocked',
            'message' => 'You have been automatically unblocked and given some permissions, because you are Ingo\'s friend on Facebook. You can use the following link to log in:

http://ingomueller.net/user',
            '#argument map' => 
            array (
              'user' => 'user',
            ),
          ),
          '#type' => 'action',
        ),
      ),
      '#version' => 6003,
    ),
  ),
)

Comments welcome!

Cheers,
Ingo