Ashley Madison Was All Men Talking To Eachother

Ashley Madison was a bunch of dudes talking to each other, data analysis suggests.

The Ashley Madison hack has revealed a lot of interesting things about the men who used the extramarital affair-finding site, like which cities, states, and universities they're from.

But what about the women?

Turns out, there may not have been very many women. As in, almost none.

Gizmodo writer Annalee Newlitz analyzed the data from the site's user database and found a lot of suspicious stuff that suggest nearly all the female accounts were fake, maintained by the company's employees.

First, the official numbers. The info that the hackers published contained about 31 million accounts apparently belonging to men, and about 5 million apparently belonging to women.

But when Newlitz dug deeper, she found a bunch of test accounts that ended with ashleymadison.com, suggesting that they were created internally (90% of them were for women), and a 350 female accounts for people with the same and very unusual last name.

Then, she found three really damning pieces of data:

Only 1,492 of the women in the database had ever checked their messages on the site. That's compared with more than 20 million men.
Only 2,409 of the women had ever used the site's chat function, versus more than 11 million men.
Only 9,700 women had ever responded to a message from another person on the site, versus almost 6 million men.
It's possible that most of the women signed up but never did anything.

But either way, Newlitz writes, "Ashley Madison is a site where tens of millions of men write mail, chat, and spend money for women who aren’t there."

The site's parent company, Avid Life Media, did not immediately return a request for comment.

Serves those A-holes right, hahaha!

I've always hated the concept of an infidelity promoting website or any kind of organisation promoting this. Coming across this headline really made my day.


Full story here: http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944

So Ashley Madison was all about cyber encounters, not actual real life stuff?

All online dating is 90% men 10% women !

It's just like going to a bar. If you go looking for women you will be disappointed with all the bros.

I thought AM was where you arrange to actually meet other married people. Not that cyber cheating is anything less than cheating.

It's amazing that anyone actually dates anyone these days. *pulls up old man pants* Back in my day you actually got to know people.

I've read enough Huff Post women that I could write their dating advice column.

The first mistake of Ashley Madison is that people got married. What were they expecting from marriage ?

If you are not happy before marriage getting married is going to make it even worse.

Unless you want to have a family I don't see any real point of getting married.

Aren't there like tax benefits or something?

Yes but you really going to do all that work for tax benefits ?

I've seen what marriage has done to my friends and I don't like what I see !

They used to be full of life after marriage I don't even recognize them anymore...

My theory is this happens because in modern times people generally start a relationship with sex, and then work on the relationship(love) part after. With sex being the corner stone of the relationship. It's foundation is doomed as soon as the sex isn't satisfying like it was in the beginning, and the relationship almost always inevitably starts to fail.

Are cars inherently evil because people drive drunk?

A common problem is that people go into relationships (not just marriage) without already being complete people on their own.

If you can't love yourself/function on your own, how can you possibly be an asset to your partner?

Marriage is fine. Are cars inherently evil because people drive drunk?

Who said anything about love I'm talking about marriage here !

I think people get married for the wrong reasons. I should have worded it that way.

My theory is this happens because in modern times people generally start a relationship with sex, and then work on the relationship(love) part after.

A common problem is that people go into relationships (not just marriage) without already being complete people on their own.

If you can't love yourself/function on your own, how can you possibly be an asset to your partner?

Marriage is fine. Are cars inherently evil because people drive drunk?

I disagree.

But yes, if one isn't happy with themselves they will never be happy with somebody else

I don't entirely agree with this either. The "you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else" concept is motivational poster fluff born of good intention, but flawed.