The End of Personal Secrets?

The Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2012

Photo Credit: Prolific Immigrant

AUSTIN, Texas—Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway.

One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a choir group she had recently joined, inadvertently exposed Ms. Duncan's sexuality to her nearly 200 Facebook friends, including her father, by adding her to a Facebook Inc. discussion group. That night, Ms. Duncan's father left vitriolic messages on her phone, demanding she renounce same-sex relationships, she says, and threatening to sever family ties.

  The 22-year-old cried all night on a friend's couch. "I felt like someone had hit me in the stomach with a bat," she says.



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