Next, Scoble rang in with a link to the same article as my previous post and added his opinion that he hates LinkedIn.

The thoughts that spring to mind for me (since Scoble didn’t offer many in his post, we’ll talk about mine instead!) are that LinkedIn’s existence and use methods lead to this kind of spamming. I can see sending someone like Scoble, who has an online presence where his email and phone number are publicly available, in a LinkedIn connection request to just try and get in his (imagined) network. It could be quite a coup to get in that network, if it existed. Then again, when you think a bit more along these lines, you can see that if Scoble indeed worked that way and used LinkedIn that way, you would be in a network mostly populated with yahoos like you who don’t know him that well. That’s not an effective way to network at all.