OTV: Posting Facebook Links

OTV raises an interesting point:

“Certainly these guys should have taken advantage of Facebook’s privacy settings, but to me, picking on them because they didn’t is no better than the OpenCDA creeps picking on Christie for a couple of grammar errors.

Yes, these pages were freely accessible via Google, but was it really necessary to post direct links to them here on a newspaper blog? It’s not about privacy issues or freedom issues to me, it’s about respect. One of Kellen’s friends is involved in a horrid tragedy and he didn’t really need the additional stress of realizing his FB page had been linked to on a public forum.” Full comment.

Do you agree with OTV that this is a respect issue? Or do you feel that people who don’t use the privacy settings on Facebook get what they deserve?