So I am a flake

After all this talk about going private I am taking it back. I will leave this blog open to the masses.

But let me tell you what prompted this whole thing.

I had a friend from High School who was very attentive, I guess you could say, on Facebook.  He would ALWAYS comment on EVERYTHING I posted there.  All my pictures got comments of how beautiful I was.  Well he made a video of his friends (set to the them movie of "Friends" [I'll be there for you] and everything).  I was tagged in it.  It was a slide show of his friends but my picture was lifted off my facebook account.  Also, the only friends featured in the video were women.

It kind of creeped me out.  JaDee said that was enough and I unfriended him and blocked him.  Well, then a few weeks later I get a message from someone i don't know (which has happened once or twice trying to track down relatives and whatnot).  This unknown person was the guy I blocked trying to reach me through a second profile!  He wanted to know why I blocked him on FB, so I told him, and then changed my privacy settings to no longer get messages from everyone.

Then I heard about a cousin of JaDee's who has a real live stalker on her hands.  Like someone from her missionary days spent years harassing her and even traveling 2500 miles to see her in her workplace.  Creepy huh.  Although it has finally been several years with no contact from this person, she still keeps her blog private.

I started worrying about how well do I really know anyone I graduated from High School with?  Or do I have someone in my class a little like the guy from Happy Gilmore with a note on yellow lined paper tacked to a wall with the title "People to Kill," hanging in his/her room.  In a moment of panic, I decided to be safe and shore up my defenses.

But after reading some comments, talking to JaDee, and a couple of friends, I think I am probably fine.  Public blogs are so easy to follow.  I know I would lose a lot of my friends that I know check in with me. Some of you even like what I write and I love to write so this is good practice for me. I have deleted most of my crazy followers from Indonesia and Southeast Asia.  The person in question has never left a comment on here and although a simple google search of me would find me here,  I feel OK about staying up here.

And I could be totally weirding out about a nice person was nice to me on facebook too.

So I will stay up and running.

Thanks you guys!