LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
1–8 of 8 posts
Re: LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
#2[deleted]
Re: LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
#3[deleted]
Re: LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
#4It is only logical that prospective mates use LinkedIn as an informal "background check" because, 9 times out of 10, if you're in front of a real person who is a professional, they'll be on LinkedIn, and moreover, motivated to tell the truth about their career history and current activities. I myself have often used LinkedIn to find out information about people, especially those I've interacted with in their professional capacities.
That being said, would I, as a single guy, reach out to a woman on LinkedIn and try to date her? No way... and I've already seen complaints about this. Professional women probably get messages like this all the time, and it creeps them out, and they want it to stop. Nobody brings out their social lives to LI and nobody wants to mingle their dating/romance/sex lives and any drama into their professional life here. LI is a thriving networking resource, and anyone who values their career is going to keep it that way. And yeah, I've had "female" profiles reach out to me with vague motives, and I always block them, because they're 100% catfish, or scams, or foreigners of some kind.
So no, I don't envision LinkedIn becoming a viable "dating app", or replacing any social media for hooking up or meeting mates. If two professionals choose to use it that way, it's going to be quite discreet, and probably entirely via private messaging that they carry on at all. And yes, this blurring of the professional life with pleasure and after-hours is playing with fire.
Yet LinkedIn endures as a possibly reliable way to do your "background checks" on someone you hardly know. It's not a miraculous oracle, or the final word, but it's a good tool to carry in your toolbox.
Re: LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
#5No way, it’s impossible that people are leveraging their job and social status to get laid.
That’s (sadly) been happening since the beginning of time.
Re: LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
#6What are the summaries going to say? “I’ve dated 10k women, follow me…”
Re: LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
#7It is only logical that prospective mates use LinkedIn as an informal "background check" because, 9 times out of 10, if you're in front of a real person who is a professional, they'll be on LinkedIn, and moreover, motivated to tell the truth about their career history and current activities. I myself have often used LinkedIn to find out information about people, especially those I've interacted with in their professi…
It’s going to get really bad when recruiters start asking people on a date just to see their LinkedIn connections…
“Sorry, I don’t connect on the 3rd date”
Re: LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app
#8It is only logical that prospective mates use LinkedIn as an informal "background check" because, 9 times out of 10, if you're in front of a real person who is a professional, they'll be on LinkedIn, and moreover, motivated to tell the truth about their career history and current activities. I myself have often used LinkedIn to find out information about people, especially those I've interacted with in their professi…
Sure, it is useful to have in one's toolbox, but I wouldn't require it.
I mean, for women this could make sense, since they are generally more lied to by potential mates about income and careers than men are.