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- "I feel so honored to share that you should be six feet tall."by treetalker
- Accidentally?by nokya
- Every site is a dating site, if you try hard enough.by fwlr
- oh hi there
- You can get a date anywhere. I used to get dates cold messaging women on Facebook I had no connection to. Creepy? I'm sure some thought so, but many did not.by eudamoniac
- "This guy fucks."by Gerard22Aug
- by boredatoms
- It seems the most difficult obstacle on LI would be finding a woman who is into it, unless a "dating community" began to develop and adopt subtle cues that they were open to non-professional type activity like that. As long as there is no power imbalance or conflict of interest between the parties. It seems better than dating in your workplace, or at least, casting a wider net.
Other than that, LI seems like a ripe playground for hooking up. It really seems preferable, as a place where folks are basically expected to be professionals of some kind, and therefore stable, with an income, and also they're being themselves, not throwing out fake profile pics or weaving tall tales.
It would seem no different than a fling with a colleague during a professional conference. Perhaps it would tend more towards the "Ashley Madison" vibe than eHarmony.
- There are probably just as many women as men into LinkedIn.by seanmcdirmid
- I mean why not? There was a math guy who wanted wider viewership for his calculus lectures than he was getting on youtube, so he started uploading them to a porn site and built up a steady audience and income there.
Added: did web search, maybe this is the guy, not sure.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/math-tutor-video-lessons-por...
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v3e8ye/i_am_changhsu_...
Oh here's another one:
https://www.unilad.com/community/zara-dar-pornhub-machine-le...
That one mentions that Pornhub pays around 2.5x as much per view as Youtube pays, so it's an obvious win.
- I think it's also because the regular dating sites are setup to not find you a match, so by bypassing them (at least in a way), you have a better chance of actually going on a date.
To keep in mind is that this article talks about people who have had success using LinkedIn, I'm sure there are people who've tried it without success.
by CqtGLRGcukpy - I seem to recall people were using the "flyby" feature of Strava as a dating platform. If it weren't for my poor eyesight and foggy glasses...by Gualdrapo
- The surveillance factor of LinkedIn is exactly what keeps me entirely off of it... I don't think I've ever gotten a job by using it, it's more like a spare online copy of my resume more than anything else...
It also keeps trying to create a new account automatically off of my gmail account that I can't close... Pretty much a waste of productivity for me to try to use it.
by winternett - It is advertised as a necessary evil; "everyone needs one for employment"
I recently deleted my LinkedIn. It is just used to data mine information from you. I think the site is generally pretty useless, even without all the privacy concerns.
by HDBaseT - You dont get jobs on there because unless you have a “god tier” resume and application filled out, HR has to pay to unlock your name from your application, so nobody is going to do that if you arent the #1 candidate in all of LinkedIn that applied.
LinkedIn is its own worst enemy.
- I went on a date with a LinkedIn connection, here's what I learned about lead generation:by opengrass
- I see what you did there, and really appreciate it.by chews
- This comment is pure goldby casper14