[nailer]

> but not with my brother, aunt, friend's boyfriend or mother, tenant who rents my house, the shop who delivers butane, etc.

Given that we are discussing LinkedIn, wouldn't you just not connect with them? Seems like a small cost for having to add that 5% of people manually.

[icebraining]

There is no such thing as "just not connect with them". Once it gets an address, LI will hound you and them, trying to convince them to signup and connect (they even lost a lawsuit over this), and then they'll leak the contacts for every other criminal to abuse them.

Yeah, I'll manually add a few people to avoid imposing that on myself and others.