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When you purchase through links on our site, we linkedin earn an affiliate commission. Founded inmost of us know LinkedIn as a career-centric social media platform. On it, professionals create profiles listing their work history and use it to connect with others within their industrylearn dating skills and scout linkedin jobs. But that could be changing. Yes, really. All over TikTok, users have been sharing their experiences of using LinkedIn to hunt for dates.

Enter LinkedIn. However, she also stresses that it is not ok to ask for personal info on private messages, but rather one should build a professional rapport and see if you can meet instead — after all, it is a networking site. Once you have already swiped through all of your dating apps — I can see how LinkedIn would be the next best thing. Considering LinkedIn prides itself on being the homeplace for professionals to network — not date, viewing the app as a place to find love sounds like a lawsuit waiting to site.

The line between cute and creepy is delicate territory, however, Gallager is well aware of this. Linkedin the new toxic dating trend. Elman also advises caution. However, even with all of these considerations in place, not everyone is happy about the shift. For example, Gensler was recently asked out on LinkedIn, and it did not go well. Regardless, I was very taken aback and confused, as I wanted to ensure my LinkedIn did not showcase myself in a suggestive light or unprofessional way.

From playing Words linkedin Friends where users would start chatting with her and asking for her number based on her outdated Facebook profile, to receiving an In-Flight Entertainment aeroplane seat message asking for her number. I have even received small payments on Venmo site to take me out. The popularisation of dating apps and the shift to digital social interactions post-Covid have impacted our ability to foster genuine connections, and as a dating, it seems like nowhere is sacred. I asked around my friendship group to see if anyone would consider using LinkedIn as a dating app, and I got some pretty weird looks.

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