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Many of these were people I had never heard of; none of them had I knowingly invited. A handful sent me puzzled messages wondering why I’d asked—one was from a PR executive in Las Vegas who recalled that a year and a half ago she’d pitched me a story about some company’s 30th anniversary. “Never heard back,” she snippily advised.
What had I done? I asked LinkedIn to hypothesize. “It’s possible you may have sent out a number of invitations using the address book import feature on our site and inadvertently uploaded your personal address book,” a “customer experience advocate” wrote back. “This feature has the potential of sending out invitations to your entire address book if the correct box isn’t checked.”
Should this embarrass me? Should I obsess over it? Should I even care? Should I write all 401 and tell them I was just kidding? I won’t pretend it doesn’t matter at all.
