Gasp!

So, Facebook has become even more important as a part of my life of late. I now have several games that I play regularly (I love Scrabulous!) and I have found a way to incorporate my professional life with Facebook to an even greater degree. Not only do I manage the FB profile of Tad, but I now manage the ITS page in FB. Yes, that is right, when I FB at 10pm at night... I may in fact be "working"-- how great is that?
Of course, the FB world is not without its potential pitfalls. My FB profile is personal. I keep it marked private and support politicians through it (Obama '08!) and have things that I would not want just anyone to see necessarily. Last night I received a FB friend request from a certain individual whose name just happens to be the name of the crazy professor I called the police on a few weeks back. This is where the "gasp!" comes in. I read the email message that this person wanted to be my friend. Gasp! Do I reject the crazy person possibly shoving them off the edge? Do I accept the invitation and bring crazy into my online home? I decide to ignore and hope I am quickly forgotten.
When I logged into FB this morning there was the request. Curious, I clicked it open and there was someone I do not recognize. Not the same crazy prof but someone with the same name. Bear in mind, I still don't know who this person is, but he has 4 friends in common with me. Well, if he is friends with those 4 people, it must be alright for me to accept him as a friend. That makes not sense!!! I would purposely ignore crazy, set my profile to private, but let in someone I know I do not know simply because he is a common friend. Furthermore,I really doubt the 4 other people who share him in common actually know him. They barely know each other so I don't see how their paths could intersect when he is in London and is way too young. He is probably genuinely friends with one person, but in my new sense of online protectiveness, that is not enough. Sorry Mr. London Young Guy whose name is the same as Prof. Crazy-- you are being rejected after you were accepted. The borders of my life must be secured.