There is a very small gap. LinkedIn had a short run as an email address harvesting operation. Now they cost me about a second a month, between the time that o

There is a very small gap. LinkedIn had a short run as an email address harvesting operation. Now they cost me about a second a month, between the time that one of their messages makes it through my spam filter and the time I mark it as spam. Something not called LinkedIn could probably harvest a few more addresses before becoming just as hated as LinkedIn. (Side note: I just got an "invitation" "from" someone I met this year in a completely non-job context. I'll ask the next time I see him, but I'm pretty sure he did not explicitly ask me to whatever-the-heck in LinkedIn. More likely, he made the mistake of uploading his address book.)