diff --git a/lib/jam_ruby.rb b/lib/jam_ruby.rb
index c64f8a058..ffc6e2062 100644
--- a/lib/jam_ruby.rb
+++ b/lib/jam_ruby.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ require "jam_ruby/tire_tasks"
 require "jam_ruby/message_factory"
 require "jam_ruby/models/genre"
 require "jam_ruby/models/user"
+require "jam_ruby/models/user_authorization"
 require "jam_ruby/models/band"
 require "jam_ruby/models/connection"
 require "jam_ruby/models/friendship"
diff --git a/lib/jam_ruby/models/user.rb b/lib/jam_ruby/models/user.rb
index 263405615..fa50040d5 100644
--- a/lib/jam_ruby/models/user.rb
+++ b/lib/jam_ruby/models/user.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ module JamRuby
 
     self.primary_key = 'id'
 
+    # authorizations (for facebook, etc -- omniauth)
+    has_many :user_authorizations, :class_name => "JamRuby::UserAuthorization"
+    
     # account
     belongs_to :account, :class_name => "JamRuby::Account"
 
@@ -234,8 +237,18 @@ module JamRuby
       user.first_name = first_name
       user.last_name = last_name
       user.email = email
-      user.password = password
-      user.password_confirmation = password_confirmation
+
+      #FIXME: Setting random password for social network logins. This
+      # is because we have validations all over the place on this.
+      # The right thing would be to have this null
+      if password.nil?
+        user.password = "blahblahblah"
+        user.password_confirmation = "blahblahblah"
+      else
+        user.password = password
+        user.password_confirmation = password_confirmation
+      end
+
       user.admin = false
       user.email_confirmed = false
       user.city = city
@@ -260,9 +273,13 @@ module JamRuby
       if user.errors.any?
         raise ActiveRecord::Rollback
       else
+        # FIXME:
+        # It's not standard to require a confirmation when a user signs up with Facebook.
+        # We should stop asking for it.
+        #
         # any errors here should also rollback the transaction; that's OK. If emails aren't going to be delivered,
         # it's already a really bad situation; make user signup again
-        UserMailer.welcome_message(user, signup_confirm_url + "/" + user.signup_token).deliver
+        UserMailer.welcome_message(user, signup_confirm_url.nil? ? nil : (signup_confirm_url + "/" + user.signup_token) ).deliver
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/lib/jam_ruby/models/user_authorization.rb b/lib/jam_ruby/models/user_authorization.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5f7c97e25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/jam_ruby/models/user_authorization.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+module JamRuby
+  class UserAuthorization < ActiveRecord::Base
+
+    attr_accessible :provider, :uid, :token, :token_expiration
+
+    self.table_name = "user_authorizations"
+
+    self.primary_key = 'id'
+
+    belongs_to :user, :class_name => "JamRuby::User", :foreign_key => "user_id"
+    validates :provider, :uid, :presence => true
+
+    # token and token_expiration can be missing
+    
+  end
+end