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LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too

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> At the very least, she would know whether the man had a job.

As the founder and CEO of LinkedIn, I can confirm that nobody ever lies on the internet.

I once applied for a loan online. Got an email from a different domain saying I’d get a call. When I received the call I expressed concern I was talking to a scammer.

The lady said, “Just check my LinkedIn profile, it proves I’m for real.”

There is an adage: every social app is a dating app if you are creepy enough.

Anything with a list of people with enough information for you to figure out a way to contact them can be used for dating.

I remember reading a newspaper story maybe a decade or so ago about California officials being unhappy that someone who was on the California registered sex offense list was using it as way to find other men who had committed the same offense in hopes of finding dating partners who would not be put off by his crime.

Nightmare Difficulty: Betterhelp

or perhaps Nextdoor

Cursed

Including github?

Grocery trips arent just for food anymore!

Trips to the coffee shop arent just for caffeinne anymore!!!!

Descents into the Warp aren't just Slaanesh anymore!

Business Insider you so crazy

Business Insider’s website reliably crashes my Safari (iOS) tab in about 10 seconds after open/refresh. It’s been happening for months, at least. It’s a real blessing now that I think about it

Do people still meet in physical places? I thought "relationships-started-online" was (sadly) trending toward 100%.

Its just a Match.com psyop

Go to a convention or a salsa class and 'just bee yourself'

You're giving profoundly contradictory directives.

almost like business insider isn’t just for business info any more.

LinkedIn is reverse Tinder: hot girls chasing nerdy guys and getting ignored :)

Sorry, I had to...

not only is she hot, she'll get you a great deal on AI consulting and some cheap offshore webdev work too

It was reverse engineering and got me locked up, recruiter was cute though.

Reddit has a fantastic sub known as LinkedInLunatics[1]. I highly recommend checking it out. A frequent topic of conversation are the posts from females that are just veiled advertisements for sexual services.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics

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I hate LinkedIn. I closed mine.

I aspire to this...

And...

How do you connect with employers, employees, look up companies, jobs, etc.?

Every job that I've had I've found despite LinkedIn. My first graduate job was through word of mouth, the second I was headhunted, the third I found a recruiter that was worth his salt (who also, eventually, placed me at my fourth). Anything I've needed to know about a company there were ways outside of LinkedIn to find out, often as LinkedIn seemed like a HR washed exercise in grandiose. FWIW they're all but one are companies you would've heard of.

What is the value you've had in return from being connected with your previous employers there? I'm connected with my closer colleagues through normal messaging apps.

All my jobs are from LinkedIn, via recruiters for various companies. In fact, I use the number of messages I get per week as a proxy for how well or poorly the market is doing.

Most jobs I used to get were useless and ignores both my experience and interests. I never got a single interesting offer through there.

What are your experience and interests? Just like SEO, or search engine optimization, there exists the concept of LinkedIn profile optimization. It includes things like having a good profile picture, making sure your profile has a clear niche (fullstack, backend, embedded, etc), having clear bullet points for each of your company experience sections, with numerical values if you have the data ("increased performance by X% using A, B, C"), setting your location to a well-known tech hub, and so on.

Once I did all that, I've multiple gotten daily messages with very interesting offers. LinkedIn is a tool like any other, people simply have to learn how to use it.

switch jobs less often.

Everything about dating, sexuality, having fun with typical life things finds the wrong audience here, where people love to dwell in front of their terminals.

That's a sweeping statement if I ever did see one.

Dystopian.

This is a reversion to the old way where you could meet partners anywhere.

I mean, yes? I've said this for years.

Turns out, it doesn't work for me.

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