LinkedIn is motivated by user acquisition and expansion. They are hiring 50 JavaScript engineers which they announced at the last Node.js Meetup at the PubNub office in San Francisco. I looked up "<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">principle-agent problem" on Wikipedia and found a pathway to a question I've been asking internally at PubNub for a while. Motivating LinkedIn to stop mass spamming would require something, drastic. Instituting a legal/morality action preventing address book access sounds, difficult. Displacing User / LinkedIn interest alignment for spamming, priceless. There are those who simply want the feature to mass spam their contacts, earning them connections on LinkedIn.</span></font><div>
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