Linkedin Is Not A Dating Site
While there's no shortage of unusual stories of couples finding love on LinkedIn and LinkedIn dating apps, don't be fooled. It's a terrible idea. Here are four key reasons why this strategy should be avoided at all costs.
Unlike a dating website or app like Match or Tinder, people are not signing up for LinkedIn for dating purposes, thus any dating propositions via the platform is unwanted sexual harassment.
This is why you should never use linked in as a dating site. It can really hurt you when job hunting and people can easily find out you are using it as a dating site especially if you have common friends with people you are trying to get a date with on there. LinkedIn is not a dating app: Why a professional networking site is causing women users such distress When Regina Scott found out that, after a gruelling boot camp, she had received her dream internship at a software company, she was excited: her mid-pandemic career change into the tech industry had paid off.
Imagine receiving an ambiguous business networking inquiry only to find out later it was actually a dating inquiry. Totally awful!
It's Extremely Risky
A woman shamed a guy for making one such unwanted advance by posting a screenshot of the chat conversation, which ended up getting 22,700 likes. It's a really great way to let the world know you're a creep.
Professional achievements highlighted on a LinkedIn profile have very little to do with if a person is looking for a relationship or not, or how they would be in a relationship if they were looking for one.
LinkedIn is a business networking site, not a dating site and it is important to make a very clear distinction between the two.
This might seem like something that should go without saying, but just like the other well-known and frequently ignored fact that 'LinkedIn is not Facebook' this seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
For some time now I have been receiving emails from men that send what seems to be legitimate invitations to “connect” and once we do, I receive a message from them claiming to have 'fallen in love with me' after merely reading my profile.
For those of you that have not be privy to such messages they generally go as followed...
“Dear Love I am... from... I am into this website linkedin.com and saw you profile email today am interested in you I am looking for a nice woman I will love forever because I am a man that knows how to make a woman smile I believe in long distance relationship because it needs a lot of strength and courage. With due respect, I will like you to write to me through my email so that we can start expressing our feelings together, contact me directly with My ID (@gmail.com) Thanks and hope to hear from you Love from (@gmail.com)”
LinkedIn in a professional networking site; it’s not a social site or a dating site. It’s to help you manage your professional contacts and your career.
Please can we keep it professional and not saturate this valuable tool with irrelevant pictures of “what’s the first word you see” and “are you a genius” and let’s not forget the messages of love.
Linkedin Is Not A Dating Site Like
Professional topics go on LinkedIn, Bikini pictures go on Facebook and dating messages go on Match.com