What do I do?

I’m kind of in a tough situation….

A couple months ago, I posted about my hatred for people who whore themselves out on friendster/facebook. My response to these types of requests are pretty straightforward….If I don’t know you, and you haven’t given me a valid reason for requesting my friendship, then I’m rejecting you. (“I’m a big fan of your website” works, “We have the same last name” doesn’t.)

Since then, I’ve encountered a new situation that I wasn’t expecting, and one that I don’t have as straightforward of a solution for.

Shortly after my previous post, I got a request on facebook from a name I didn’t recognize. I did my initial background check of her profile and saw that she graduated from my high school in ’01 (I was ’00). Nothing else seemed to ring a bell…. I had never even heard of the college she went to in Florida. l couldn’t place her, so I asked my sister (who was also ’01) if she knew anything about her. She gave me a general description, but it did nothing to jog my memory. And although her facebook picture indicated her to be a pretty attractive young lass, I stuck to my standards and sent a little “No” her way.

Last week, I got another request from this SAME person. What is the protocol for this type of situation?

Is she stalking me? Has my internet stardome extended to the furthest reaches of little-known Florida colleges? Will I soon be crashing my Infiniti while evading the paparazzi? Do I admire her persistance with a ‘yes’, or do I need to restrict my phone number?

Am I the idiot? We have 36 friends in common…..all Mel-Hi alumni, from close friends to kids-I-hardly-spoke-to-but-whose-names-I-at-least-remember. Did she slip through the cracks somewhere in the five years since I’ve moved away? Should I give in, on account of my terrible memory?

Or is she just plain dumb? Did she NOT catch my previous rejection? Or has she whored herself out so much that she can’t remember who has rejected her in the past? Has the word “friend” lost all meaning to her? If I reject her again, how will I know its over?

What do I do?