Ashley Madison is a website that is available for people that want to have an affair. Ashley Madison has been in the news lately because the website was hacked and the hackers are demanding users to pay them in order to keep their profile private and away from their partner.
There are even sites that you can go to and type your partners name in and find out whether or not they're registered with Ashley Madison.
First off, if you're going to cheat on your partner so be it, that's not my issue.
My issue is that these cheaters are actually being cheated out by the actual website.
8% of the "females" on this site are real women..
The other 92% are robots.
You are cheating on your wife/husband with a computer.
They found out that the number of actual human women were staggering low when the IP address for thousands of the accounts were the exact same along with the email addresses as well.
60-70% of the revenue was just men paying to talk to bots.
Nice.
I'm all for people experimenting and living their lives the way they want to. I don't condone cheating but the circumstances are never specified.
According to OTM, Ashley Madison is actually more of a fantasy site.
There are things called "purpose bots."
Ashley Madison offered a "guaranteed affair" for the price of $250.
The bots engage with the high rollers and then pass them along to affiliates.
As listeners, we don't know who or what the affiliates are.
Men that access the site after monitoring porn sites are given off to a "porn bot."
These lovely bots talk dirty to the guys and send "adult content" to the user.
Again guys, these are computers..
People are being exposed for being on this website and their partners are divorcing them because of an affair WITH A ROBOT..
Makes sense.
Depending on where you came from and how much you make, different types of bots were programmed to talk to you.
Instead of Ashley Madison making a profit off of affairs, it's actually making money from just pure fantasies.
On The Media related the two by saying Ashley Madison and the stupid app Farm Ville are the same exact thing in many ways.
A couple being you're creating this alternative universe that you're engaging in imaginary activities while using and paying for imaginary objects.
Physical- This happens everywhere. Obviously in the world of Internet though.
Psychological- I think a lot of different emotions come up when talking about such an iffy topic. My feelings toward the Ashley Madison controversy are really slim to none. However, partner's of these people that are involved with the website... I'm 100% they feel a little differently.
Social- I think in today's society there are so many rules. I hate it. I think automatically many people that hear and write about Ashley Madison are happy that these people have their information out there and have been exposed. I, on the other hand, disagree. How can someone know someone else's life? They don't. I don't know the circumstances that entice a partner to cheat on their partner. And I never will know. But I do know that circumstances arise and it is what it is. The "rules" of what is right and wrong are such bullshit.
Cultural- Oh the morals.. The morals of people differ from every single person to the next. Again, I don't know why a person is a member of Ashley Madison. Does this disrupt my life and make me lose sleep? No. I'm faithful to my honey and wouldn't think about joining something like Ashley Madison because I have no desire to. I don't believe this is the same for every person. So I do not judge. Morals of one single person does not mean shit to the next.
Temporal- The hack just happened in the last couple months I believe. So the wounds are still fresh.
Hey if you want to cheat on your partner, so be it.
No judgment from me.
And if you specifically would love to cheat on your spouse with a robot, well my friend ashleymadison.com is where it's at.
On The Media: Ashley Madison
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ReplyDeleteHannah,
ReplyDeleteReally interesting post on the Ashley Madison topic. The fact that this website was hacked is just one example of how public the internet can make our private lives, and it truly shows that nothing is safe on the internet. It's also interesting how humanistic our technology has become.
Hannah,
ReplyDeleteI really liked the sarcastic way you're engaging with this controverse topic!! I think you're absolutely right that the decisions of people who use such websites are none of our concerns. However just the thought that someone has the urge to cheat on their girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever with a ROBOT and pays a lot of money for that makes me sick! Sometimes the internet kinda scares me!