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Originally Posted by pbutton
My guess is it was some address book mass invite mishap. Mine told me that when he got his new (personal) cell phone, he accidentally clicked on the wrong thing and it added 2000 of his gmail contacts to his phone contacts, some of whom he REALLY did not want to see on there. Linked in tries to do that to me all the time too.
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YES - LinkedIn does it too and there is no way to turn it off. It sends periodic requests to your email contacts once you link your address book to your LinkedIn account. I got a LinkedIn request from my psychiatrist a few weeks ago and I must admit it made me anxious so I deleted my account entirely, part of me wondered if he had looked at my info on there. Then I realized what was going on - I was also seeing him in my "People You May Know" list on FB. It's all automatic once you punch in that email address and there's no going back. I didn't bring it up with him because I'm pretty sure it was the system and not him. LinkedIn was not useful to me at all anyway...I find it pretty outrageous that they reserve the right to badger people even when you didn't make a request to network with them.
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