I've been steadily increasing my online presence over the past few years. I have two active blogs, one of which you are reading now. But, I hope you already knew that. If you are reading this post without knowing about this blog, I have no idea how you are doing that. Please tell me, as that might be a great service to mankind. I have a YouTube channel. Someone has actually subscribed to it. I don't know how legitimate it is, but it happened. People even commented on it. Kind of. It was more about talking to each other than about the clip. I run my store's website. It has minor updates every week, and larger ones about once a month. I manage my store's Facebook page, where I duplicate some of the same content. Hey, it saves time. Okay, so I make mistakes. Just yesterday, I forgot to publish the latest posts on my other blog, but I still included a link in some of my other posts. In case you missed it, here is the correct link. I'm going to have to include it on my page later on today just to prove that I did have this week's installment. The one place where I haven't reached my fullest potential yet is on LinkedIn. For the past few months, I've been cross-posting my YouTube videos there the day that they debut. I have occasionally posted links to some of this blog's posts as well. I keep thinking of posting links to my recent puzzles there as well, or possibly just post them separately, as some of my posts here aren't the best match for that site. I keep trying to make connections, but so many of their suggestions are just not the best fit. Well, a few weeks ago, I received a notification about a new invitation, from myself. Specifically, another Toby Weingarten. I guess I was a little freaked out, but I sort of knew who this man was. See, a few years ago, I googled myself in a failed attempt to seek out family members on the side I knew nothing about. The first results that came back were for this man, at least those for people still living. I was close behind. I might even have overtaken him by now with my increasing presence. To protect his privacy, I won't go into his details, suffice to say, the invitation appeared to come from the same person. His settings weren't as fully completed as mine; he didn't even have a picture. However, I still accepted the invite. A few days ago, he even messaged me, telling me why he sent out the invitation. It was just a security check-up, to make sure no one was trying to make a fake profile. He even included some information in case there was a chance we were related. The odds are very low, unless someone decided to name him after their long-lost son he hadn't seen in a few years. I believe I'm slightly older than the other Toby, but this is just an educated guess. I must admit, I have had hopes of finding other family out there. Not knowing anything about one whole side of my family is depressing, especially this time of year. Anyway, there hasn't been a response to the last message, yet. I don't log into LinkedIn as much as I should, and it appears that the other Toby doesn't either. He does have a very busy schedule, from his job description. I'm thinking that I may have found a new round of research to look into.
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