Some facebook friends' birthdays returning as null but I have the correct API permissions

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Published on 2012-06-06T17:12:55Z Indexed on 2012/11/27 5:04 UTC
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I'm tring to get my friends' birthdays in my app and some of them are null. I thought that those people don't have a birthday set, but they actually do.

My fql query is:

SELECT uid,name,birthday_date FROM user WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid2 from friend where uid1=me())

My app has the "friends_birthday" permission set.

I also tried with "birthday" instead of "birthday_date". Same result.

I imagine that this happens because they opted out somehow, but I don't know how.

Is there an alternate solution to actually get their birthdays from facebook?

Thanks!

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