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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:10 PM Aug 2015

The most hilarious revelation about the Ashley Madison hack yet

Gizmodo took a look at female profiles on the site and discovered that most of them were never used at all after they were created. In fact, the site estimates that roughly 12,000 of the 5.5 million registered female accounts are actually used by women on a regular basis. Gizmodo used a lot of smart detective work to come up with this estimate, including looking at IP addresses that created a suspiciously large number of women’s profiles.

But here’s the really amazing thing: When Gizmodo went to see how many Ashley Madison users checked messages they’d received from other users, the website found a hilarious disparity that showed the ratio of men checking messages to women checking messages was 13,585 : 1. Seriously.

“Overall, the picture is grim indeed. Out of 5.5 million female accounts, roughly zero percent had ever shown any kind of activity at all, after the day they were created,” Gizmodo writes. “The men’s accounts tell a story of lively engagement with the site, with over 20 million men hopefully looking at their inboxes, and over 10 million of them initiating chats. The women’s accounts show so little activity that they might as well not be there.”


https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/most-hilarious-revelation-ashley-madison-hack-yet-031557791.html

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The most hilarious revelation about the Ashley Madison hack yet (Original Post) kpete Aug 2015 OP
this just gets more entertaining every day.... mike_c Aug 2015 #1
I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of those 'active' 12000 accounts Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of those 'active' 12000 accounts
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 01:44 PM
Aug 2015

turned out to be used by AM employees to 'give hope' as well. Keep stringing the desperate along, keep them paying ongoing fees because they think they might just 'get lucky' 'next time'.

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