For Emilia and Dave, LinkedIn was the first step to finding a long-term romantic relationship.
Steve Dean, an online dating consultant and founder of Dateworking warns against the overlap of professional networking and dating: “Calling LinkedIn a dating platform would poison the well, metaphorically, leading to an exodus of users who have neither the time nor the emotional stamina to fend off barrages of unwanted suitors.”īut it’s not always a bad thing. So I think it was a date? Still unclear.”
“I was like, Why coffee? Does he actually wanna professionally connect, or is he trying to bang? Then we ended up getting drinks and not coffee. He lives in NYC too, so he reached out to me being like, ‘OMG, I heard you live here too, we should get together sometime and grab a coffee,’” she recalls. “The hottest guy from my high school slid into my LinkedIn DMs. If someone reaches out to you on LinkedIn and you don’t have any certainty of their intentions, how do you know if it’s a date or a networking opportunity?Īlice Jones, 23, says she had one such confusing interaction.
Which is fair: Once the line between what LinkedIn is designed for (professional networking) and what some people seem to be using it for (dating) becomes blurred, things can get pretty complicated. But when we spoke to both male and female LinkedIn users who claimed they had been approached on the site, most of them also expressed that they no longer saw it as a safe space devoid of sexual tension. A lack of distinction can make the platform look like “a neutral way to gauge someone’s interest,” says "Brea" (who asked that we not use her real name), 27.
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