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I hear you but to grow your community these connects are vital. People just DO NOT want to fill out profile information or upload a picture. That is what i see as the main advantage of using them. I think that regardless of OUR perception of these services the fact is that many people use them, and trust them. It’s a no brainer to me to grab some of their “feel goods” by putting a connect feature on my sites.

I have run into the duplicate thing already and i just delete the duplicate user after sending a note explaining why. Not that big of a deal.