I've recently experienced a flood of "please connect with me" messages. They seem to come in waves. I generally contact the people I know OOB. Sometimes they in

I've recently experienced a flood of "please connect with me" messages. They seem to come in waves. I generally contact the people I know OOB. Sometimes they initiated the request, and sometimes they did not. I assume LinkedIn's app is sucking up contact lists from phones, probably by opaque permission. Now linked in is asking me to invite people to join LinkedIn, who are not yet members. I assume these "leads" also come from contact lists sucked up by their app. I was asked to invite a mailing list to join. I belong to a private mailing list, which has a name. I assume that list's address was sucked up by the app. To the people at LinkedIn who implement this stuff and enable this kind of behavior, faking communication from people who did not actually inititate it: Really? That's what you do for a living?