Last week, I did some cleanup on my LinkedIn connections. I downloaded the data for my account and ran some crude analysis. In the end, I removed 1% of my network. I definitely appreciate my LinkedIn feed much more now. If there was one takeaway for this exercise, it is this. Tread carefully. Coincidentally, I posted twice about cleaning up my LinkedIn connection pool, and both times I received a temporary suspension. I'm not sure whether it was simply the mention of what I was doing or actually viewing the profiles before I removed them. Either way, the suspension was real.