I know people lock down their profiles for a reason but finding Connections and even accepting Connections is a terrible experience.
If someone wants to connect with me, I can't see who they are or where they come from. For a user to user connection you probably know the person but if they use a strange username you won't be able to find them. And if a person wants to join your group I thought it might be at least useful to see who they and what they do. And even after you allow them to join your group you can't see certain information.
To me that's a little weird.
But as mentioned above, I kind of get the reason, but if I wants to connect to a friend, and this has happened to me, if they use a very common name or even a very obscure name, when I search I either get lots of results which when I click gets me no detail at all so I am none the wiser or I can't find my friend because he uses some strange name. It would also good to be able to at least be able filter on location. This would help a lot.
Surely this can be kind of cleaned up a bit to make it a bit more friendly and usable.