Is LinkedIn secretly the hottest dating app out there? On this week’s Gay Bit, Zach Randles-Friedman ends the week super gay with a campy deep dive into the world’s most “professional” social network, where the job posts are depressing, the headshots are suspiciously gorgeous, and the scammers never sleep.
In this episode:
- **The LGBTQ+ Professionals group:** Why Zach and a friend trade screenshots of impossibly hot “just introducing myself” posts, and whether some of these men are AI (spoiler: one wasn’t)
- **Zach the matchmaker:** The time he slid into a stranger’s LinkedIn DMs to set up his friend Greg, and why an open relationship in another city was a dealbreaker
- **Equinox Seaport flashbacks:** Feeling like a 4 among perfect 10s at 5:30 a.m., plus the mystery of barefoot and shirtless gym guys
- **LinkedIn’s sad era:** Layoff posts, overshare culture, AI-polished resumes, and why LinkedIn is starting to feel a little too Facebooky
- **Vetting your date:** Only about one in five people say they use LinkedIn mainly for job hunting — many are using it to check whether that “Fortune 500 CEO” from the bar is legit
- **Spam folder safari:** 1,317 unread spam emails, domain buyers, fake delivery notices, and the long-lost prince
- **Wrong-number texts:** “Grace” thinks she’s texting Zach’s husband Andrew, and a surprise Australian call that turns out to be an MLM pitch
- **The big idea:** A blind-date matchmaking app — answer a questionnaire, get matched, meet at a coffee shop in Somerville without ever seeing a photo
Plus: Google yourself after this episode. You might be surprised.
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