He deals with money and I eat Mario Kart fruit snacks for lunch. (BTW: I can confidently categorize this as a thirst-add because we would never cross paths professionally. 'I never want to do business with you AGAIN,' I almost messaged him. A guy I hooked up with six years ago-who I refer to as 'my Republican mistake'-added me on LinkedIn last year and I shrieked. The move is low-stakes because if someone accuses you of adding them with romantic or inappropriate intent, you can accuse them of being presumptuous. Yet this doesn't stop people from 'thirst-adding' cuties on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a somewhat unusual place to troll for dick because, well, it's a professional space, and you're not supposed to fuck where you shit or whatever the proverb is. Read more: The Bizarre, Horny Messages You Get from Men When You Write a Sex Column 'There's a Clefairy here,' he said, and the rest is history. Last year, upon returning to her apartment after a long day of catching 'em all, she saw a man outside her apartment on his phone. I recently spoke with a woman who met her boyfriend while playing Pokémon Go.

He turned out lame-things are bad, usually-but how cool would it have been if that had worked out? I think we're all so desperate to meet people outside of dating apps that even an Uber-facilitated meet-cute feels adorable and old-fashioned.

After the ride, they tracked each other down on Facebook and ended up meeting for a drink. A few months ago, a friend of mine hit it off with a cute man in a Lyft Line. 'I've never met anybody that I connect with on so many different levels, and I credit Uber for that,' the man said. A recent story in the Philadelphia Inquirer profiled a now-engaged couple who met in an UberPOOL. We all know that Twitter and Instagram-two apps with strong DM cultures-have been facilitating hookups and relationships for years, and even ride-sharing apps like Uber bring people together who hit it off and end up dating. So why is LinkedIn of interest to me, a humble sex columnist who doesn't own business cards or even a working pencil? Here's why: Non-dating apps now rival dating apps with their matchmaking powers.

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