Thing about Facebook is that it leaves your life out in the open for one and all to browse. However hard you try to hide certain aspects of your life, there will be no skeletons left in the closet.
The interconnectedness of all the aspects of our lives - professional, family, frens, political, sexual, educational etc - are visible once just certain things are displayed on Facebook. You may not say you are "Interested in Men" but looking at all your frens who are topless, with their pics with known gay personalities, taken in gay clubs, just might be the hint.
And noone is safe. By truly understanding the intersections of all our lives, you can use one person’s Facebook to find out not just about them, but also people in their friends list or co-captured in their gloryfying pictures. Trust me, it aint that difficult.
Which is why the 4th of July was quite truly Independence Day for me. Finally came out to some colleagues. It wasnt due to any specific pressure but just that it was getting so tiring pretending and wondering if i would slip up sometime and inadvertently out myself. This was esp dumb since i actually wanted to be out. So, grabbing life by the balls, i did it.
Now, to gently ease the others on a need-to-know basis.