What are people saying about LinkedIn as a dating site...

July 23,2014 By Larry Kim
6 Reasons LinkedIn Is the New Online Dating Site Most of us are familiar with LinkedIn as the No. 1 social site for career networking. LinkedIn can help you get a job and show off your credentials and, unexpectedly, even help you find love. Here are six reasons LinkedIn is love's secret weapon.
1. It has a huge network. With more than 300 million users across 200 countries and territories, LinkedIn boasts a significant number of targets for Cupid's arrows. And better yet, these are prime potential dates. LinkedIn is a network of driven, working professionals, not sketchy men taking shirtless selfies.
2. It offers the most important info about potential suitors. LinkedIn makes it easy to review possible matches based on the info that matters--where you're from, where you went to school, and what you do. While these elements are admittedly unromantic, they say a lot about an individual and are significant indicators of potential compatibility....Read More

June 27,2014 By Diane Helbig
Hey Folks, Guess What? LinkedIn Is Not a Dating Site! LinkedIn is an incredibly valuable business connection and resource site. When used properly, LinkedIn can help you expand your reach, increase your credibility, and grow your business.
But lately, I’ve experienced a lot of people using it incorrectly. Because I do a lot of writing and public speaking, I tend to accept LinkedIn connection requests from many people I don’t know. It’s a decision I made consciously.
In the past, the majority of the people who sent me requests were people who genuinely wanted to connect professionally and build a relationship. Or they wanted to be able to follow what I was writing and find out where I’d be speaking in the future.
Lately however, people have chosen to use LinkedIn to solicit, and even worse, to try to create personal relationships.
In one week, every connection request I accepted was immediately followed by an email telling me about the person’s product or service and why I should want to purchase it from them. Beside the fact that I didn’t even really know them yet, they didn’t know me. They didn’t know my company or my needs. They assumed because of my title and my company, that I must need what they were offering.
This, in my opinion, is one of the worst sales techniques in the world.... Read More

May 10,2014 By Annie Daly
How LinkedIn is the new frontier in online dating For years, James hated online dating. The 30-year-old explains that even though most of his peers do it, he was always opposed to hopping on a Web site to find girls. The vice president of a private equity firm, who asked not to use his last name for professional reasons, says, “I’ve always felt that the various dating sites and apps are just too random — nothing is vetted.” Until now, that is... Read More

March 1,2013 By Meghan Casserly
Is LinkedIn The New Dating Hot Spot, Or A Breeding Ground For Harassment? As a publicist, networking is Jessica Hatcher’s bread and butter. “Unless I absolutely know that someone is spam, I typically accept all requests to connect via LinkedIn,” she says. After all, she never quite knows where her next lead is going to come from.
But she couldn’t help but notice when the levels of “connection,” male LinkedIn members were seeking got a little too, well, physical. As an attractive woman on the web, overly-personal messages and unsolicited invitations for coffee meetings are sometimes par for the course, but when Hatcher, who works for L.A.-based Konnect PR, received a sexually explicit message over the social network, she had had enough. She removed him from her connections, blocked his messages and contacted LinkedIn... Read More