Just enqueue a job on service create for now, since our queues are empty. Resque status will let us run the job and show the user a spinny without locking up a thin

app/controllers/users_controller.rb

@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ class UsersController < ApplicationController
     if @step == 3
       @requests = Request.where(:recipient_id => @person.id).includes(:sender => :profile).all
       @friends = service ? service.finder(:local => true) : {}
+      @friends ||= {}
       @friends.delete_if{|key, value| @requests.any?{ |r| r.sender_id == value[:person].id} }
     end
 

app/models/service.rb

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class Service < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :user
   has_many :service_users
   after_create do
-    Resque.enqueue(Job::UpdateServiceUsers, self.id) if s.respond_to? :save_friends
+    Resque.enqueue(Job::UpdateServiceUsers, self.id) if self.respond_to? :save_friends
   end
 
   def public_message(post, length, url = "")

app/models/services/facebook.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 class Services::Facebook < Service
   MAX_CHARACTERS = 420
 
+  after_create do
+    Resque.enqueue(Job::UpdateServiceUsers, self.id)
+  end
+
   def provider
     "facebook"
   end