

Women need to be clued up on how dangerous that can be.” “Men prefer to trawl through networking sites as it gives them more of an insight into your life than on a dating app. He’d looked into her professional networks before they were introduced by a mutual friend, then spent their relationship punishing her for not living up to what he’d seen online. Nicki Rodriquez, a PR executive from Essex, says her ex-partner knew everything about her before they met.

Other women report that men are using LinkedIn to screen them before dates. “One guy said he wanted to rape me in an alley and then kill my parents. When she doesn’t respond, she’s told to “chill out” or “stop being moody”. The hair and makeup artist from London regularly receives unsolicited flirty messages from men online. Nicki Donohoe has experienced the darker side of LinkedIn dating firsthand. My experience just resulted in wasted perfume, a knock to my self-esteem and an open invite to the sisterhood of mugged off by a Marine.
