Perceptions

Man, I'm a terrible blogger. Maybe that's a sign, huh?

I had a dilemma...the kids from camp wanted to "friend" me on myspace. I told them I would friend them only on my music profile, not my personal one, and not my facebook profile. (Yeah, I have 3 active social networking site profiles, 1 abandoned one on friendster, and a dating site profile on okcupid).

So, three kids did friend me, and I started second guessing myself, and I apologetically deleted them as friends. Not that it makes THAT much difference...they can still visit the profile. But it just seemed like a line that I didn't want to cross.

I hope I didn't hurt their feelings too badly. One of the kids seemed kind of hurt by it, and I had to explain that adults have to be really careful about being friends with non-adults and that it wasn't because she's not cool. I hope she understands.

And, it's kinda dumb, because the profile isn't private, so anybody can visit that one (my personal profiles ARE private). The music profile is pretty tame, but you know...my music is pretty personal, and I can't control what others post on there.

I think I probably wouldn't mind if the kids were, like, children of my friends or something. I feel like the fact that they were semi in my care makes a difference. I don't want to inadvertently endanger my organization or myself. It's a small risk, but the gain is also small. It would probably make it easier to stay in touch with those kids, which would be cool...I'd love to see what becomes of them and to be able to help them out if possible...but there's just too much potential for misconstrued intentions, etc.

ok, gotta go hold a boom mic for my friend's movie.