<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div><div></div><div style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><div></div><div>Actually, this could also happen by accident, too.</div><div><br></div><div>It is my understanding (as told to me by LinkedIn support) that when you join LinkedIn, you give them permission to harvest your contacts and send requests to every contact that is not currently a member of LinkedIn as known by the email address for that person in your contact list. (Did you bother to read your ToS?) I've gotten spammed recently by dozens of friends and business colleagues who have installed the LinkedIn app on their smartphone, only to have it harvest their contacts and spam me. I had to contact LinkedIn support and give them my list of 200+ email addresses and tell them never to contact me any again -- it appears to be working. (Some days I was getting 20 to 30 LinkedIn requests in my Inbox!)</div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I believe that LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. are massive invasions of privacy and I refuse to play that game. Unlike 99.999999975% of the population, I still believe that privacy matters. I hope some day the rest of the world wises up and follows me. But, I'm not holding my breath.</div><div><br></div><div>JK</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>P.S. Full disclosure: Actually, I have dummy, placeholder accounts with LinkedIn, Facebook, and a few other social sites. These dummy accounts are set to maximum personal privacy, were created using tor on a separate computer login with no PII configured in that login, using single-session throw-away email addresses, etc. The only reason I created the accounts is to prevent someone else from creating a bogus account in my name. No photo and no real PII (other than my name) exist in these dummy accounts. Everything is marked private and unshared and all notifications are disabled, which these sites make very difficult to do, repeatedly warning you that you are defeating the purpose of having the account. The only thing public is a profile that states the sole reason for the existence of the account is to protect myself from someone creating a bogus account in my name (plus a small rant on privacy).<br><div>
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<br><div>On Aug 2, 2014, at 07:18 , Jason L. Sparks <jlsparks@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Yes. Apologies to all. <br><br>On Saturday, August 2, 2014, Grant Ridder <<a>shortdudey123@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<div>Someone did an address book import and wasn't paying attention ;)<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 2, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Jason Sparks via LinkedIn <<a>member@linkedin.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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