Yeah, I expect that's what most people are worried about. But the Internet is a public domain, and there's always been that risk (though a slim one) that what you post online might come back to haunt you in one way or another. This new Facebook Connect thing maybe increases the chances of that happening a bit, especially if people are careless, but it's always been a fact that when you post something out in the open, there's a possibility that the wrong person will read it.

A few months ago, my stepmom accidentally stumbled across pictures of my brother and his boyfriend on Facebook, and showed them to my dad. Needless to say, it was not the way my brother would have preferred to eventually out himself. It made things pretty tense between him and my dad's side of the family for a long while afterward, and even now things are only just starting to really calm down again. You can bet that afterwards, he was kicking himself for putting the pictures up in the first place. There wasn't anything wrong with it, but he never considered that the information might spread in ways he didn't expect.

I guess if nothing else, this whole thing might at least make people more aware of that risk, and be a little more cautious about what they post publicly. It's not a bad thing in that sense.