Found on Myspace!

So, I used to teach elementary school in Bangkok, my favorite and longest-running being my 6th graders (whom I began teaching in 4th grade and followed them up). I absolutely adored them, and several still email me, though I left Thailand nearly four years ago (shit!) now.

Today, I got a "Friend Request" on myspace from one of these students - who is now a 15 year old girl. Uh oh.

My myspace page isn't so bad. It's not raunchy, there's no pics of me in a bikini, and I'm not a friend whore. I don't even blog on it, since obviously I do that here, and I do not advertise there about here. But I still never imagined my page being seen by anyone else but other adult friends. Okay, I'm fucking naive, I know.

She's a wonderful student - super bright, a very talented writer, eccentric and interesting, kinda like a cross between Luna Lovegood and Hermione Granger (since we have Harry Potter on the brain). Although I am happy to email with my former students, I've always limited contact to keep things (somewhat) professional. I don't join all the groups and lists they send me, I never give them my cellphone number (though they repeatedly beg for it), etc. But for some reason, I feel like rejecting this student on myspace would be unnecessarily cruel. Yet, I'm not sure it's a good idea either. I do post bulletins (usually just the endless 'get to know me!' lists), but otherwise my time there is pretty benign.

Now I'm just going back and forth, but I guess I'm wondering what you think. This is the one student who has kept up writing me the most, who sent me a gorgeous, giant photo montage of all my former students with their notes of congrats after I got married, and one who continues to email me updating me on other students and seeking my advice on her life. And we talk about books, a favorite subject of mine. I'd feel terrible to reject her in this way, but... I dunno.

Thoughts?