I blew it

Big time. Here's the story. I have a MySpace account. A couple of days ago, I got a friend invite from the [fillinnameofschool] Administration. I accepted the invitation, then quickly realized (after looking at the profile) that this MySpace page was certainly not created by the nameofschool Administration. It was, I will say, pretty darned clever and hardly offensive (though certainly not guaranteed to stay that way). But, it rang every bell on my Never-Never-EVER-Impersonate-Anyone meter. So without thinking too terribly deeply (bad, Franceylibrarian, bad!), I filed an impersonation complaint with MySpace. Apparently this is such a big problem that MySpace has a special complaint form just for reporting impersonations of teachers and school people.

Some time later it dawned on me that I should just do the mature thing and leave a comment on the page itself, expressing my objections. After all, I had been friended. This morning when I logged on I found that the name of the page had been changed to "Not really the...fillinnameofschool Administration." And the author(s) had sent a personal message to my own page. I immediately sat down and shot off a new message to the MySpace complaint department, asking that my previous complaint be withdrawn. Sadly, a few hours later, I got a message from the MySpace bot telling me that the false profile was scheduled to be deleted. And then it was. I sent another e-mail. But I fear it is too late.

Anyway, I have betrayed a trust and I feel rather rotten about it. Maybe I'll have to turn myself into a scenario. It would serve me right.