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If you're implementing Facebook Connect on your own site, you should make sure you offer people the option to later set up a username and password for their account (or associate another OpenID or similar) to avoid this exact problem.

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Got any examples of sites that do this right?

Our site http://www.wildlifenearyou.com/ does this - I wouldn't say we've got it completely right yet (we don't make it nearly easy enough to find the feature, and it's pretty ugly) but you can associate multiple OpenIDs with a single account, or set a password for it, or both: http://www.wildlifenearyou.com/account/associations/

We don't support Facebook Connect yet - I've been holding out waiting for them to provide a non-JavaScript dependent option.

TripAdvisor allows you to convert an account that you make when FBConnected into their own account.

Facebook makes it very easy for everyone. As a developer, there is a place in the Facebook Connect settings to put a url that they will send the user's id to in the event that the user disables their Facebook account but wants to keep their account with your site.

That is a good idea. I set up a customer's portal to use FBC last year and as impressed by how simple this was. It would be easy to implement your secondary login idea, so I'll probably do this in the future (or at least suggest it).

Yeah, glad that we did this when we rolled out FBC here at gdgt.

Sadly most implementers are lazy and most users are clueless.

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