Not followed by "followers"

Okay, I admit it. I'd love to have hundreds of followers indicated in the sidebar. But, alas, I don't, so I'll rationalize:
    Since I fancy myself a free-thinker, Moristotle naturally appeals to other free-thinkers. And free-thinkers are, one can reasonably assume, not generally disposed to follow anybody or anything (or to want to be known to do so).
    But of course I can't prove that I have many followers of either the sort who declare it or the sort who don't. I may need to think of a better rationalization.

Anyway, I'm grateful for the four people who have signed up to be known as "Moristotle's Followers," even if three of the four are my two children and an esteemed old friend! The fourth is a stranger. Thank you "all"; I appreciate you.

It's embarrassing, though, that at the moment I myself am listed as another of Moristotle's followers!
    But I can explain. I wanted to email the stranger, so I clicked on his icon. I was told that to send him a message I'd have to join the "friendconnect" network that would be used to convey my message to him. So, I clicked "sign in or join" and, voilà, I was shocked to learn that I had just become another of my followers. But by doing that I also became able to send the stranger a message.
    Something screwy there, obviously. If you know how to un-follow yourself, please let me know.
    It would seem that a blog's followers are able to email each other through the friendconnect network, sort of like Facebook, I guess.
    I'm not sure why an old profile photo is being used for my follower icon¹. Maybe it's because, after inadvertently joining the friendconnect network, I saw that my profile for it has that photo and also my old quote ("I'm Nobody! Who are you? / Are you—Nobody—too?" —Emily Dickinson). I don't know why my current photo and quote aren't used.
    Vast and mysterious is the universe of Google.
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1. The next day I figured out how to edit the profile that provided that photo, and I updated it. But don't ask me to tell you how I did it. I just played "trial and error" and finally succeeded. Apparently, when you enter the Google universe, you acquire more than one profile.