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What makes this extra ridiculous is the fact LinkedIn built its business on scraping not publicly available information but private address books of unsuspecting users.

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And spamming those contacts with requests to join that looked as if they originated from your business relations when that definitely wasn't the case.

It's the main reason I don't have a LinkedIn and never will. They are a scummy company.

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