Some people find the professional-life-focused networking compelling. Me, I find it theoretical, due to its profligate handling of email addressbooks and my hi

Some people find the professional-life-focused networking compelling. Me, I find it theoretical, due to its profligate handling of email addressbooks and my history helping maintain mailing lists and selling items on Craigslist before they implemented full bidirectional address anonymization. I've had a large number of invitations, likely autosent, to connect from folks I wouldn't recognize if they sat down in front of me.