LinkedIn’s professional network draws interest as a dating platform in Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus. Some LinkedIn users in Cyprus are approaching the professional network as a way to make romantic connections. On a small island, those exchanges can also lead to encounters at conferences, meetings or through mutual acquaintances.

Professional profiles, personal interest

LinkedIn was designed for recruitment and professional networking, but its profiles can also offer information that dating apps may not: a surname, employer, education, work history and mutual connections.

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There are no figures showing how many people in Cyprus use LinkedIn romantically. The network’s advertising data put its Cyprus membership at around 620,000 by late 2025, equivalent to roughly 55.8 per cent of the adult population. That was about 70,000 more than a year earlier, a rise of 12.7 per cent.

Widespread social media use

According to Eurostat, 86.5 per cent of people aged 16 to 74 in Cyprus used social networks in 2025. Among 16- to 29-year-olds, the figure was 98.3 per cent, the highest in the EU.