Facebook account - syncing contacts

hey there,
does anyone know, when you add a facebook account, are your contacts that are stored locally on your address book (icloud account) been synced and merged with facebook contacts?
if yes, are all the fields of your contacts (i.e. notes, etc) been merged and synced with facebook?
thanks in advance

thanks for the reply Eric, but unortunately my question is more specific and closely to the first post you mentioned.
what i want exactly to know, if all the contacts and specifically all the fields of your contacts from your icloud are (i.e. notes, etc) been merged and synced with facebook account.
thanks!

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