![]() And if you don't know someone, if you don't think they should be in your network, then don't accept their friend request. It says users should be keeping a tighter network. The company also says, though, that users need to do more. And so it will flag those messages and give you the opportunity to block them. It also says it's using AI to detect possible problematic messages. It will follow up with users who have reported inappropriate messages, and it will also tell users who are blocked exactly why they were removed, which apparently it has not done up until now. So what kind of action has LinkedIn taken?īERGMAN: The company says it is taking action. GARCIA-NAVARRO: So obviously, in the age of #MeToo, which has really exposed how women have been subjected to unwanted sexual advances in the workplace - you know, this is a place that is meant to be a networking site. So they are perhaps on LinkedIn and not on dating apps, and people will use it as a way to connect on there instead of overtly being on a dating app. But there's still a bit of a stigma for at least some people - maybe people who are CEOs or a little bit more prominent in their field - who don't want to be seen on a dating app. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Why might it be a place where someone would look for a date?īERGMAN: Well, there's too many dating apps to choose from, I think a lot of people would say. It can be messages that are a lot more graphic than that sometimes. Do you want to have coffee? And that's sometimes the most innocuous things. What kind of stories were they telling you?īERGMAN: Well, you know, this is a pretty common thing for a lot of women - guys who say, hey, you're really beautiful. GARCIA-NAVARRO: So LinkedIn as a love site - you write that women in particular have been receiving unwanted advances through LinkedIn. ![]() Reporter Ben Bergman wrote about it for the tech site dot.LA, and he joins us now. The community guidelines for the professional networking website prohibit romantic advances, but it turns out quite a few people have used it for just that. There's Tinder, Bumble, eHarmony, LinkedIn.
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