The business of friendship

Today I do something, not sure if I should. I delete my photo on a social networking website, which had brought me many comments and unsolicited requests for friendship from males younger and older to me.
I had added my picture when I joined Tagged not realising that it would be viewed by many a stranger, since I was responding only to a request from a family member to join the club. I dont know if it was because the site took time to register me or what but the massive influx of friendship requests began coming only in the past 2 months. For a while it annoyed me especially when a guy kept making repeated efforts "to add me as a friend" but I didnt know how to delete my picture. I somehow managed to change my profile to the private domain and highlight the fact that I was married, but it didnt stop the requests.
I must admit that it boosted my ego a bit when my mail inbox kept flooding like that. But lately it made me sit up when I saw a couple of comments - such as "you have a rare and beautiful smile" (come on, I am not even smiling in the pic, just plonking on a chair sweating and tired after a hard day's work in the kitchen during one of our maidless days) or "U hv cute baby. R u housewife??? I liked ur Baby very much, she has familiar nose like u, may be taken colour of her Dad :)) ...God Bless her and make her future Bright like her colour".
Huh? Ha ha haaaaa.
So I decided I had enough of this nonsense and spent some time trying to figure out how to delete the pic. I succeeded, but it hasnt stopped the solicitors of friendship. Maybe they will soon when they see a faceless profile for long.
Like everyone else around, I have Orkut and Facebook accounts too but I hardly every open them. I am too old for scrapbooking and flagging and stuff. Maybe I will need to delete those accounts too soon.