BTW, this is yet another reason you need to keep your hobby and real world e-life separate. LinkedIn wants you to let it see your e-mail address book. Then it will link everyone in your address book to you and link you to their contacts.
If you give your real world e-mail to TrustworthyFellowHobbyist and he puts it in his smart phone, then when he downloads the LinkedIn app, you'll be linked to him, and all his other contacts. If he's got his lowclass streetwalker e-mail address list on the same phone, now you're linked to them. And maybe to their pimps as well.
Hell LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social networks are scary enough even if you don't "leak" your hobby info into it. If one of your real world contacts has an unseemly side, you maybe be linked to it just because he has you in his e-mail list.
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