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Were you yourself swiping for new matches when you came across their profile? It allows you to show more of your personality in that sense.

If I were to opt in, how are the potential matches determined? I don't think so. She's a scientist also. Getting started is fairly simple.

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LinkedIn has always been the social media platform that keeps things professional: free of former friends and exes, it's where you take people you want to keep firmly in the colleague zone. It's been a nice way to keep things less fraught in this age of and. The detente between LinkedIn and human romantic need is now over. It turns out that some LinkedIn users are networking with hopes of a more. This means that that LinkedIn message asking you to grab coffee can actually mean more than just coffee. The founders of a new app called LinkedUP — think Tinder for LinkedIn users — are hoping to bring clarity to the matter by creating a separate means of connecting with those seeking love, instead of a professional connection. If you have ever been confused about the nature of your one-on-one meeting with a potential professional connection, you are not alone. The topic of ambiguous coffee meetings comes upattested in February. That hasn't been true of a site like , however, which wasn't intended for dating. Searching for love on a networking platform This is where LinkedUp comes in. Acting like Tinder for LinkedIn users, it allows users looking for a romantic connection to browse through a database of other users also looking for more than just a professional connection. The users 'like' the profiles of those users they are interested in — based, presumably, on their resume, connections and assumed earning power - and hope for potential match. Searching for love online can be confusing. After all, the site is about looking good to peers and potential employers — not to lady friends and gentleman callers. To find out why the creators of LinkedUp believe differently, we caught up with Max Fischer, president and CEO of the company. Do you have a partnership with LinkedIn? I want to make this clear and very direct — we are in no way affiliated with LinkedIn. However, in order to get their data, we have to use their API key, which is something that you are granted access to by LinkedIn. But in no way are we business partners or affiliated with them. Who are your target users? We are interested in people who are interested in using our application to find their type — and that might be people of any age, of any background or of any demographic. I wouldn't say we are honing in one type; this is an open platform for those interested in using this. Where did you get the idea for LinkedUp? The idea came from realizing that some of my friends, myself included, were able to actually find dates on LinkedIn using their messaging platform. Basically we just thought it was a great idea, so we started working on it after that happened. When you went on the dates that you were able to get, did you go into it thinking of the meetings as dates or as networking opportunities? I think it was a little bit more subtle. As a result, it could've been taken either way, but at the end of the day it turned into a date. Did any of your LinkedIn dates work out and lead to a relationship or are you going to be using the app yourself? I'm a little bit skeptical about this. I thought the great thing about LinkedIn was that it's the one platform where things are strictly professional. Do you think you can change that and make people comfortable using it as another online dating app? The user has sense, in terms of comfort and understanding, of: where is that person from? What do they do? Where did they go to school? Which are some of the most important questions in dating rapport between two people in terms of the first interaction. Usually when you are at a bar, those are some of the most important questions that people ask for. She's a scientist also. What's great about our application is and what helps keep LinkedIn professional is that you have to opt in to our platform to use it. So only people who want to be a part of our LinkedUp app are using it. The only thing that we make the user show is what industry they work in, their first name and whatever age they choose, which can allow the user to remain pretty anonymous if they really want to be. Or we allow them to show even more if that's what they like. As a result, we create a level of comfort, but also better identity and higher quality matches, because you are able to find someone that's your type. Speaking of quality matches, when people opt in — do you collect any other information that's not on my profile? Like my interests, preferences, hobbies … We look at this as being a platform with a great ease of use and as a result we want to make the process as streamlined as possible to help the user create a profile as quickly as possible. We have them select their gender, which doesn't necessarily show up on LinkedIn, or the age that they want to display. The user gets to decide which pictures they put in. We also have a room for a tagline, which can tell you a little bit more about the person, like what your interests are or something funny and cute. According to Fischer, the tagline for LinkedUp users can be one or two sentences long. Photograph: Courtesy of LinkedUp Our hope is to make this process as smooth and easy for the user to go from creating a profile to actually using the application and finding the person they are interested in. The reason I ask about interests is, because — take me — I live in New York, I went to the City University and I work in media. I think a lot of people can fit under that description, but can ultimately be very different people with many different interests and personalities. Doesn't this app then allow for a very superficial matching? I don't think so. I think it helps people feel a little more comfortable about people. Also, because we have that tagline, we can now know that the user on the other end really likes sports or happy hours. It allows you to show more of your personality in that sense. If I were to opt in, how are the potential matches determined? Are they based on the networks the users belong to? In terms of creating your match settings, which is one of the first couple of things you have to do when you are opting into the application, you select who you are interested in in terms of: gender, age, distance. You can search by industry and school, if you chose. But if you want, you can see everyone on the application.

Even on apps that aren't specifically designed for reconnecting, most people opt to see matches who live close by. When we decide to trust our partner, we choose to have faith that they are honoring the of our relationship—even if they have broken them in the past. In theory, this should be used with consent — to make it faster to add new connections and ditch the use of business cards. But what if you find out that has a profile on one of these apps. But if current trends hold dating app like linkedin, that number will only continue to rise. It remains to be seen if that idea will succeed. If you make this discovery, it can help to have a chat with your partner about what are or should be.