People online are flaming a woman for saying she uses LinkedIn as a dating app: 'It's a professional platform'

• A woman said in a viral video that she uses LinkedIn to find men to date.
• Candice Gallagher said one downside to LinkedIn is that there's no way to filter men by height.

A woman said she uses LinkedIn as a dating app, and people online are divided on whether it's appropriate.

Candice Gallagher, who goes by the username @candi.licious on TikTok, said in a video that she uses the online networking platform to look for men to date. The video, which was posted on July 27, has since garnered some 860,000 views.

"Why am I using LinkedIn as a dating app? The filters! Number one, I can filter for an education — MBA, baby," Gallagher said in the video, adding that she can also filter potential partners by industry and that she's looking for doctors, lawyers, and finance bros.

Gallagher, who's from the UK and works in Singapore, said there's one drawback to using LinkedIn as a dating platform — there is no feature to filter out men by their height.

"But at least there are very good-looking photos that I can kind of do some height analysis on," she added.

LinkedIn, of course, is primarily meant to be a place where professionals can network, look for jobs, and post work-related updates. But increasingly, it's become a mixed-use site, where people try to do everything from getting hired to sell insurance policies and gym memberships.

"To provide you with context, a friend had privately shared the LinkedIn profile of one of their connections and had asked if I would like to be set up on a blind date with him. This approach then sparked ideas about LinkedIn as a dating app," Gallagher told Insider, adding that she didn't intend to "undermine LinkedIn's professional purpose."

Dozens of TikTok users were unhappy that Gallagher was using LinkedIn as a dating platform, with several saying that it was "unprofessional."

"Is this a joke? There are so many women complaining about men doing the same thing. Why is it okay for you to do this?" one user said.

"People are not on LinkedIn looking for that. That's definitely not the place," one user wrote, adding that it's "fully disrespectful."

Some users raised questions on how Gallagher would know if the person she's interested in on LinkedIn is married or not.

"gurl, but u cant filter whether they alr marriage or not," one user commented.

But several users agreed with Gallagher that the best way to find a partner is by hitting men up on LinkedIn.

One user commented: "this is true if you want to date an intelligent and stable man go to LinkedIn."

A LinkedIn spokesperson told Insider in a statement: "Romantic advances and harassment of any form is a violation of our rules, and our policies include detailed examples that show what kind of content does not belong on LinkedIn. Members can report any instances of harassment on LinkedIn and signal to us that such behaviour is unwanted, allowing us to take action."

It's not the first time LinkedIn has gone viral as a dating app. In February, TikToker Hannah Harmelin told Insider that a man had asked her out on LinkedIn, and that it made her feel "flattered" but "creeped out" at the same time.