LinkedIn Is Not a Dating Site
The case against your dad’s favorite social-media platform being used to “connect” with younger women
by Sophie Gilbert
Sep 10, 2015
3 minutes
LinkedIn is a lot of things: a convenient place to upload your resume online, a weird portal for “thinkfluencers” to post inspirational screeds about leadership à la Forbes.com, a site that indulges the 2008 Facebook dream by telling you (albeit in very limited ways) who’s been checking out your profile. But it is also, indisputably, the social network of choice among older men.
The evidence for this is both anecdotal (everyone’s dad loves LinkedIn) and statistical. The second is that some men are apparently hoping LinkedIn is the new Ashley Madison.
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