Is LinkedIn the Best Way to Find Love? – The Good Men Project

When you get to a certain age, your dating pool turns into a dating swamp. ~ Anonymous … It had been a few years since I’d last used LinkedIn — maybe in 2016 or 2017. Can’t recall the exact year, but it was a while ago. Then, after leaving corporate life behind in late December 2019, L.I. was even further from my mind. I figured ‘what’s the point of re-activating my account if I’m not interested in using the site?’ Fast forward to October 2021. Knowing I’d be leaving the U.S. to return to my ancestral land of Borikén, I started to re-evaluate what platforms would be of potential use for business connections. Since I had already started taking my writing seriously, I knew I needed to avail myself of as many tools as possible. Re-enter LinkedIn. It was slow going at first — I needed to update my profile, add past experience, and make new connections, in short… get reacclimated with the site. One of the things I noticed was that sometimes random folks wanted to connect. By ‘random’ I mean we had zero previous employers or academic affiliations in common. No biggie. If they were from the same
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