Awkward! Adding a friend on Facebook when they are present

I know Karl for awhile. Recently he came along to my birthday celebrations and we realised we were not friends on Facebook. Shock horror. Karl's surname is difficult to spell so he helped me find him on Facebook on my phone. As we were looking at the screen together I pressed the 'Add friend' button. Immediately afterwards a dialogue popped up asking me to categorise Karl as a acquaintance or close friend. Awkward. Selecting close friend would not have felt right for both of us as we are in the process of getting to know each other and hanging out more. Whereas the word 'acquaintance' suggests that the relationship is somewhat nonchalant or 'slight' as Google would have it. The gap between acquaintance and close friend is too wide. Facebook's intention is to let you see less of an acquaintance's activity in your news feed. But why ask to classify that person there and then? Surely you will only want to make this decision when you see the nature of what they post. Their posts might mean that you get to like that person more and become close friends. Facebook would do well to simply let me add a friend and categorise them if I want to sometime later.

Adding a friend on Facebook mobile can be awkward.