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Web Site Makes Millions by Connecting Cheaters
- tdavis 18y agoI pride myself on having nearly no ethical or moral constraints, but damn, "Life is short, have an affair!" is a bit much even for me. And considering it costs roughly $2.50 to send an email it might be cheaper in the long run to just get a divorce. Okay, maybe not...
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- Eliezer 18y agoOT: Out of curiosity, why do you pride yourself on having nearly no ethical or moral constraints?
- potatolicious 18y agoNot intending to speak for the poster, I think he's referring to have no ethical or moral constraints when it comes to a business. There is certainly a lot of money to be made in areas where morals are gray or downright black...
- donaq 18y agoI'm guessing he means he doesn't judge and hoping he doesn't mean he will kill you as soon as look at you.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoI'm going to completely ignore the ethical and moral questions this services raises, and instead focus on this: Don, a 52-year-old IT specialist living in Southern California who, not surprisingly, preferred not to give his real last name, is one of the site's hundreds of users. I'm hoping this guy didn't give his real first name, either. Southern CA has millions of people, but I bet there are less than 10 who fit that description exactly. Hell, there might only be one.
- joe_the_user 18y agoI like this site, not because it is at all ethical or because I have any interest in partaking in its over-priced services but because it makes this society as a whole more upfront about its hypocrisy. Human beings has often been polyamourous with cheating. If ostensible monogamy becomes more obviously just ostensible, then open polyamory becomes more appealing. Down with cheating, sure but things that let us ease out hypocritical monogamy with less emotional blow-back are good.
- sobriquet 18y agoI hope he DID give his real last name... "Don Deshizzle", that's a sweet name
- aswanson 18y agoHundreds of users to millions of dollars? Incredible monetization ratio.
- patio11 18y agoI am reminded of that "33 bits" blog that pops up here periodically. Every living person is uniquely addressable with 33 bits of the right information. "California" is worth 8 bits by itself. Male gets you another 1. Age within one year is probably 6 or so... Ah, here's that blog: http://33bits.org/ http://33bits.org/ Its fundamentally changed the way I think about anonymity. (I used to think it might be possible.)
- tsally 18y agoI can't upvote you enough. What an elegantly simple way to think about anonymous data. Thanks for the link.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoThose guys really must enjoy sleeping soundly at night. At best they're taking money from people for dreaming of better partners. At worse they're actually helping people screw each other over. Along these same lines, we can have sites for people who want to cheat on exams, cheat on taxes. Maybe we could even have sites where people could plot crimes together -- anonymously, of course.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agothose sites already exist and are fairly well established.
- mattmaroon 18y agoThis site has the exact same problem as AdultFriedFinder, which is that no woman needs it. If one really wants some NSA relations, all she has to do is go to a bar, rather than publicly post her picture on the net where anyone (including her husband) can find it. I suspect both of those sites are almost entirely men chasing fake accounts.
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- calambrac 18y agoI dunno, there's probably a large market of women who don't really want some NSA relations, but still want to play around like they do. Or that aren't sure if they do or not and just want to dip their toe in. Or that do, but don't have the courage to throw themselves into the bar scene.
- mattmaroon 18y agoI think the bar scene is FAR less courageous than AFF.
- calambrac 18y agoWhy? The bar scene, it's you unmediated. Even if you adopt a different persona while you're out, you have to work to keep it going the whole time. Rejection is immediate and in your face, oftentimes cold. If you're not in a huge city, you always risk running into someone you know. On the web, you can construct whatever reality you want, and you don't have to throw your whole self into it while you do so. You can put up fake pictures, you can flirt from the comfort of your bathrobe. You can keep your anonymity until the actual moment of interaction, and you know the groundrules going in.
- mattmaroon 18y agoIt's a bunch of slimy, anonymous strangers on AFF. You think the average woman wants anything to do with anyone who would be on AFF?