Professional Networking sites and "dating"; your thoughts?

I am Interested to hear so thoughts and/or experiences with this. It has never occurred to me to lurk networking sites in search of a date, but apparently I may be in the minority on this one. A dear friend recently resorted to broadcasting a post on LinkedIn that read, "[D]ear LinkedIn Creepers, this is a business networking site... not a 'hey, she has a sweet job so I am going to try and hook up with her' website. Be professional or go back to Tinder!"

I asked her privately what prompted the post and it was unbelievable the amount of private messages, connection requests, and borderline stalking she has encountered! Yes she has a "sweet job" as a Rocket Scientist... I mean Rocket Propulsion Engineer, and yes her photo, although professional looking, does reveal the fact that she is also attractive... still no excuse in my book though!

Thoughts?


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