CLASSIC ME

So Linkedin has just sent me a request to add myself as a connection. Yeah. Got an email. “Do you know Matt?” it says, “Senior Technical Author. You have 1 mutual connection.”

Weird isn’t it? What are the odds of someone with my name doing the same job as me? Not to mention the fact that this person has my face. No, it’s definitely me, alright.

What do you reckon? Should I add myself? What if I turn out to be awful, and just spam my timeline with TED talks and humblebrags? Or worse, I end up messaging me about my career! Nobody needs to hear that nonsense, least of all me.

Also, who’s this ‘mutual connection’? Who’s the only person that’s known by just me and myself? And how come that person hasn’t introduced either of us to the other? Eh?

I bet it’s me. I bet that mutual connection is somehow also me, or the other me, or whatever. Yeah that’ll be it. Chuckling to himself about knowing both me and the other me, and keeping both of us from meeting, just for some amusement. That is classic me.

Anyway, I guess it’s LinkedIn who have messed up there. I don’t think I should invite me to become a connection, and ruin the fun of our mutual me - not because we don’t all know each other, but more because I don’t want to create some sort of singularity and disappear into a paradox. And in any case, the three of us definitely don’t need encouragement to wind each other up. We can do that all on our own.