In Singapore, where a British expat named Candice Gallagher is working her way through ten dating apps in ten weeks, an unlikely tool has become a quiet source of hope: LinkedIn, the professional networking site built for careers rather than romance. Her reasoning, shared in a viral video, is that the platform's filters for education, industry and location let her sort through people by the things that matter most to her. It is a small story about how people adapt the tools already in their hands when the familiar ways of meeting someone stop working, and about the mix of delight and doubt tha
Singapore Dater Turns to LinkedIn for Its Filters, Trying 10 Apps in 10 Weeks
I'm looking for A-grade men and LinkedIn has A-grade filters.
Mark
So she's using LinkedIn as a dating app. Why did this catch on?
Mimi
Because her reasoning is simple. She wants three things: an MBA, a profession like medicine, law or finance, and someone in Singapore. LinkedIn lets you search on exactly those.
Mark
And how did she land on it?
Mimi
A friend tried to set her up with a very attractive man through LinkedIn. That's what started it, and it fits with her 10 apps in 10 weeks challenge.
Luke
Before we go further, is that a finding or an anecdote? Do we know whether she's actually gone on any dates through it?
Mimi
Not from this reporting. She describes the method and the appeal, but no outcome for her is given.
Mark
What about the people commenting that it worked?
Luke
They're anonymous commenters. One says she dated a media executive, another says it worked once. Nothing is verified, so I'd treat them as claims, not evidence.
Mimi
There's also the skeptic who said it's time-consuming and needs more filters. That's the practical limit.
Mark
And the height joke?
Mimi
That's her admitting the gap. She can't filter for it, so she studies photos.
Luke
Which is a guess, not a measurement. And 940,000 views tells us people watched, not that it works.
Der Puls
- A 37-year-old expat's offhand TikTok idea about using LinkedIn filters for dating sparked over 940,000 views and a flood of reactions.
- Commenters split sharply, with some celebrating the approach as genius while others warned it is time-consuming and that the platform needs better tools.
- Gallagher is testing it as one entry in a ten-app, ten-week experiment, using education, job and location filters to narrow her search.
- The method remains unproven, resting on anonymous success anecdotes, and the outcome of her experiment has not yet been reported.
In Singapore, where a British expat named Candice Gallagher is working her way through ten dating apps in ten weeks, an unlikely tool has become a quiet source of hope: LinkedIn, the professional networking site built for careers rather than romance. Her reasoning, shared in a viral video, is that the platform's filters for education, industry and location let her sort through people by the things that matter most to her. It is a small story about how people adapt the tools already in their hands when the familiar ways of meeting someone stop working, and about the mix of delight and doubt that follows when a private search becomes a public conversation.
Candice Gallagher, a 37-year-old British expat in Singapore, has set herself a challenge: try ten dating apps in ten weeks and see whether any of them leads her to the right man. One of her stops has drawn unexpected attention, because it is not a dating app at all but LinkedIn. The idea began when a friend introduced her to an attractive man through the professional networking site, and it sparked a thought she shared in a TikTok video: why not use LinkedIn's filters on purpose?
In the video, Gallagher said she was looking for "A-grade men" and that the platform offered "A-grade filters." She named three she relies on: education, where she seeks someone with an MBA; industry, where she looks at doctors, lawyers and finance; and location, which keeps her matches in the same country. She admitted the one thing LinkedIn cannot filter is height, which she said she estimates from good photos.
The video has been viewed more than 940,000 times. Many viewers called the method brilliant, and some admitted they had been considering the same idea. Others shared stories of success, including one woman who said she met a senior media executive on the platform. These accounts are anonymous and unverified, but they reflect how keenly people are following the trend.
Not everyone was won over. Some commenters found the approach time-consuming and said the platform would need more dating-focused filters to work well. Gallagher's experiment is still underway, and whether she finds a match or names a favorite has not yet been reported.
Candice Gallagher, a 37-year-old British expat living in Singapore, has set herself a project: try 10 different dating apps in 10 weeks and see whether any of them turns up the right man. One stop on that tour has drawn far more attention than she may have expected, because it isn't a dating app at all. It's LinkedIn.
By her account, the idea came after a friend tried to set her up with a man she described as very attractive, and the introduction happened through the professional networking platform. That detour gave her an idea she laid out in a TikTok video. "Why am I using LinkedIn as a dating app? The filters," she said. She went on to say she is looking for "A-grade men" and that LinkedIn has "A-grade filters," and she framed the whole thing as part of an effort to make dating in Singapore a little more fun.
She named three filters she relies on. The first is education. "I can filter for an education, MBA baby," she said, indicating she wants a man with a master of business administration. The second is industry, where she said she looks at doctors, lawyers and finance. The third is location, which she uses to make sure the men are in the same country as she is. She called that one very important.
There is one thing the platform can't do for her, and she was upfront about it: height. She said she can't filter for it, but good photos let her do what she called some height analysis.
The video has been viewed more than 940,000 times. Many commenters called the approach brilliant, clever or genius, and some said they wanted to try it. One said they had created a LinkedIn profile only a few days earlier and had been thinking the same thing, laughing as they admitted it. Another wrote that these are the filters that really matter. A third said they had tried it too and found the results fascinating.
Some commenters went further and offered success stories. One woman said she dated a top executive at a major media company whom she met on LinkedIn, and concluded that it works. Another said she had used it once and it worked. Those are anonymous comments on a social media video, so they show what people say happened rather than anything verified.
Not everyone was convinced. One commenter said they had tried it but found it much easier said than done, calling it very time-consuming and saying the platform needs more filters.
Gallagher's experiment is still running, and her 10-app tally includes LinkedIn alongside the more conventional options. What she ultimately finds, and whether she names a favorite, hasn't been reported. For now, what the story shows is that a professional networking site's search tools can be repurposed for dating, and that plenty of viewers found the idea appealing enough to watch, comment on and, by their own telling, try.
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Why am I using LinkedIn as a dating app? The filters.— Candice Gallagher, in her TikTok video
Tried this but so much easier said than done. It's very time consuming, need more filters.— Commenter on Gallagher's video
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