Avoid LinkedIn if you can. Someone years ago told me that it mines your email contacts and sends LinkedIn invitations to your contacts. Can you make a junk email account for it with no contacts in it and disable LinkedIn from mining your email, or does it have to have FB or twitter-X now?
It does that if you let it. It whines if you don't give it access to your contacts, but it won't do it unless you allow it. It's easier to misclick this on mobile, since your contacts are right there on the device.
That being said, I have a receive-only email on my domain that is assigned to LinkedIn. There are no contacts, regardless of what it wants.
My primary email account is a junk email account lol
Be prepared to have LinkedIn announce you signed up to your junk contacts. If you don't care about the publicity, then go for it.
"We save the contact data returned by your email provider. This could include names, birthdays, gender, locations, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, websites, and notes"
If you’ve enabled address book syncing,
Don't let it do this.
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