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This has been happening for a long long time now. There is a reason why many women do not post a headshot on Linked In.
My wife was looking for a new gig 5 years ago, and was constantly getting tons of DMs from dudes who wanted to fuck. And her pic was pretty damn conservative/ professional. Just a headshot with a smile.
There should be some sort of way of flagging and shaming these creeps.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While each of the men had the plausible deniability of a connection or two in common with her, she said it was immediately clear that their motives were not strictly professional — one of them worked in the oil industry, a field far removed from anything she’d ever done for a living.
In an age with so many dedicated dating platforms — from giants such as Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge to niche apps including Feeld (for the unconventional), Pure (for the noncommittal), and NUiT (for the astrologically inclined) — why mix Cupid’s arrow with corporate updates?
Because the professional-networking site asks users to link to their current and former employers’ profile pages, it offers an additional layer of credibility that other social-media platforms lack.
In his bio, Hotz declared that he now used the site “exclusively as a dating platform” and laid out a catalog of requisite attributes — “intelligent, attractive, female, in or visiting San Diego” — for his ideal match.
“If someone is willing to take their time and let the initial professional connection evolve in a way that is mutually respectful,” Yager said, “and if both parties somehow communicate their availability for romance, and they want to go the next step — which might mean a phone or Zoom call or meeting in person in a safe public place — hopefully it is a win-win.”
A significant proportion of younger professionals may have missed out on this type of in-person workplace camaraderie altogether, which could help to explain LinkedIn’s recent surge in popularity among teens and 20-somethings.
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Like I know tinder is deeply enshittified, but please. I don’t need this.
LinkedIn is trash, it’s a glorified resume where narcissists go to brag about themselves.
Adding a dating feature is only going to benefit two groups of people: the ones who have the highest paying jobs, and people who are looking to be with someone for their money. For everyone else, this is just going to make LinkedIn more repulsive than it already was.
I thought it was for people to suck corporate cock and post terrible hiring stories.
Whereas I’ve avoided social networking sites (like FB/IG/etc) because I’ve always known most folks use it to brag about how much fun they’re having or what they just bought - LinkedIn is a horrible mixture of how much corporate KoolAid they can drink and their newest job/promotion.
I don’t mind being proud of friends who are doing well but seeing it in condensed milk form makes me sick and applies to both.
LinkedIn just isn’t for Jobs Anymore. It’s Now a Pile of Trash.
Ads about pushing your career, then more ads about how to create a better work life balance. And everybody seems to be a coach who tries to push their courses about the above mentioned topics. Thanks but I’ll pass.
My favorite thing is LinkedIn sending you spam advertisements disguised as real people chatting you. Every month or so I get a message from a spambot saying something along the lines of “Hello! My name is Diana. Have you heard of LinkedIn premium?”
Total trashfire of a website. Unfortunately, I still have to open it every now and then to adjust my profile and check for jobs, because it feels like everyone asks for your linkedin page when applying now.
I decided to check if it was any better than my current specialized job portal, which has enshittified a little in the last years. But Linkedin enshittification can’t be beat. It’s like prostitution level of job seeking for brainwashed people. What jobs are you applying for?
You don’t have to actually browse the site. You put your resume on there, give out the link when asked and occasionally you get contacted by recruiters with an open position. You can turn off most emails so if nothing else at least you’re not bothered by it.
I’m not sure why people are so enraged by a website they can simply ignore most of the time.
I like all the recent graduates who have all of a sudden become experts in their fields and post on behalf of the company. Or those that are so humbled to let everyone know that they are taking a Coursera course.
Gross
Right, so I’ve lived my whole life constantly being told that I can’t read social cues and that everyone else has this magical ability to understand subtext and all that. Which makes this article so confusing to me because it reads like the author is so oblivious to how people actually work.
The article can be summed up as basically:
- Turns out, people can find love by talking to each other and don’t need specially designed apps.
- But it can’t happen organically, you need to use some app to do so and look out specifically for love. Obviously.
- Relationships are entirely transactional and are based on your partner’s academic and business performance.
All with this creepy undertone that sexual harassment should be delegated to a footnote and subject to a cost-benefit analysis rather than, you know, avoided entirely.
Title made me go “ew”, your comment saved me clicking through to confirm… Thanks.
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As i tell everyone else, LinkdIn is a glorified facebook for boomers. The only time i will ever update my profile is if I am looking for a job.
Facebook is Facebook for boomers.
I finally pulled the trigger on it and put mine on hibernate. Will activate it again if I’m looking for work, but hopefully not in the near future (just started a new job last month).
I used to browse linkedin all the time, and found that my contacts shared interesting articles and links that related to my job. I got 2 jobs from listing shared by my network that I’d never have found otherwise.
But it’s been years since that time, and now it is a cesspool of shameless fake humble bragging and totally non-work appropriate content. I’ve been hit on multiple times with men trying to get me to chat with them about really personal stuff in DMs.
I’m job hunting now, and it’s one of my main methods for finding opportunities but otherwise I wouldn’t log on at all.
I don’t use it, but I know companies checkout my profile whenever I apply so I made my profile look really good, added a ton of skills and completed a bunch of the certification test things.
Up until recently when jobs in my industry dried up, I would get recruiters contacting me weekly at a minimum. I’ve never actually used it as a social media platform, and I don’t understand why people do tbh.
To misquote John Waters,
If you go home with someone and they have LinkedIn in their browser history, don’t fuck them!
I have to use LinkedIn for my job, don’t pick on the factota, pick on the executives! The only war is class war.
In case you want to date the most annoying people on earth
Don’t shit where you eat.
Meh, i thoroughly enjoyed dating a coworker. It was so much fun to have work dates, eat lunch together often, and help each other on projects.
Yes, it was challenging.- Don‘t mix money with honey
-Don‘t mix spreadsheets with bedsheets
But then again, workplaces are still the top places were ( later married) couples have met on average.
