I have received a lot of e-mails from LinkedIn recently asking me to add all sorts of connections and to reconnect with people.  LinkedIn is not really a website that I use.  In fact, I very rarely go onto it and I made the unfortunate mistake of ticking the box to add connections.  From a numbers point of view I went from about 150 connections to 830+ in 2 or 3 days, but only then did I start discovering the extent of the problem.

LinkedIn had basically sent an invite to anybody who had ever written to me at my company email address.  That includes people with potential cases whose cases we have declined or people who wanted to complain about something or other, or offer us a photostatting service, phone lines, advertising services, etc.  

Within days I received a steady stream of messages from people who said I have asked to add them as a contact and they would like me to reconsider taking on their personal injury case which we had previously declined as not being a good case.  I received a number of messages from people who wanted to supply all sorts of equipment to my offices and even former staff members, currently at their second or third firm after leaving us, asking me to point them in the direction of a firm that may wish to hire them.  

That is also a reminder to all of us, the next time one of your Apps asks you to add your contacts, to be very careful about clicking that button, and if you do click it, to deselect those people you do not wish to send an e-mail to, as otherwise your e-mail box is going to be flooded and you will have to spend a lot of time having to explain to people that you inadvertently asked to add them.