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

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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. (This number was greater than the number of women who checked messages because it's possible to answer messages in bulk when you first visit the site, without ever opening your inbox.)

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.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ashley-madison-bunch-dudes-talking-233158251.html

[Reckoner]

so basically it's grindr

[Sehunk]

31 million people want to cheat on their significant others... why bother getting married in the first place?

[512955124]

That's sad.

[MidnightEXO]

31 million people want to cheat on their significant others... why bother getting married in the first place?

^^^ Exactly why I don't want to get married. 

[�ю�ша - Hyunrena]

Most AM accounts are fakes and then just people who signed up out of curiosity (mostly unmarried people, too) to find out what the website is about but had no intention of using it.

[Sehunk]

^^^ Exactly why I don't want to get married. 

Awww, I'm the opposite to be really honest. Of course, I won't stay with someone if I feel the relationship is going nowhere. But, I do want to get married~ Sucks that I can't in my country though. 

[Mischo]

lol and all the celebrities getting caught smh

 

2 people so far har comitted suicide

[J-Cole]

Funny how women just wanna chat, whereas men they just wanna....smh..

[Izaya Orihara]

lol and all the celebrities getting caught smh

 

2 people so far har comitted suicide

Have they really committed suicide? Oh wow I didn't know.

[Mischo]

Have they really committed suicide? Oh wow I didn't know.

yup

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506

[Arsene Lupin]

fuck this website and fuck all of its users real or not

 

this article is also very unrealistic, we don't know which method she used and it just sounds flawed

[Big Stupid Jellyfish]

Not surprised if it's true.

[bbangjyjbapshineelove]

lol

[Nowhere Boy]

Lmao

[Vanilla21]

Hahahha! Well not surprised about it.