Perhaps true. Surely it would be too creepy to exploit every bit of information available to suggest connections? No, not too creepy! At LinkedIn if someone

Perhaps true. Surely it would be too creepy to exploit every bit of information available to suggest connections? No, not too creepy! At LinkedIn if someone searches for you then OBVIOUSLY you MUST know them and want to connect! The clever LinkedIn engineers think "Let's offer a connection to the target of a search for the search originator - that's an engineering challenge, not a complete invasion of privacy creep out."