Ashley Madison Netflix documentary - anyone watch it yet?

[Anonymous]

Interesting doc. I guess I have no issue with the site existing - cheaters gonna cheat. But they were definitely committing fraud. Those gross men (mostly) were so desperate to cheat on their partners that they paid thousands of dollars to talk to bots, paid to get their account wiped (wasn't), even have to pay to read the messages the bots sent. Quite disturbing.

I feel bad for the wife of the guy who killed himself. It seemed like she would have looked the other way, but being a pastor or whatever, it was one of the cases where they probably would have lost friends, family, maybe have had to move.

The main guy/girl that they focused on, I'm glad they seem good now. But his insistence that AM was so evil is dumb. He was cheating at massage parlours and strip clubs, AM was just one of his many avenues for f***ing other people.

Why is it always the "devout christians"?

[Anonymous]

I just figured watching it.

I thought it was a good documentary with some interesting people and information.

It sounds like it was one hacker, not a group and the person was internal.

Makes sense because they did not have any security, even though they made a big deal of their security, and they were making guys pay to talk to bots. It was a total ripoff. A woman who worked in customer service said they knew the men were looking at fake profiles. They also made guys pay to have their info removed permanently and then never removed them!

The owner was just a really gross person and a liar.

But using this service was a sad thing to do too.

[Anonymous]

^^finished

[Anonymous]

I was really hoping the YouTube wife would leave her husband. I haven’t finished the third part, but saw that they were still together. He was such a narcissistic jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting doc. I guess I have no issue with the site existing - cheaters gonna cheat. But they were definitely committing fraud. Those gross men (mostly) were so desperate to cheat on their partners that they paid thousands of dollars to talk to bots, paid to get their account wiped (wasn't), even have to pay to read the messages the bots sent. Quite disturbing.

I feel bad for the wife of the guy who killed himself. It seemed like she would have looked the other way, but being a pastor or whatever, it was one of the cases where they probably would have lost friends, family, maybe have had to move.

The main guy/girl that they focused on, I'm glad they seem good now. But his insistence that AM was so evil is dumb. He was cheating at massage parlours and strip clubs, AM was just one of his many avenues for f***ing other people.

Why is it always the "devout christians"?

It's not just devout Christians, it's any devout religious group -- it's just that you hear about Christians the most because the people they focus on in the stories happen to be Christians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know how to search the list and purposely never looked it up because I don't think I want to know if my husband is on it!

Then he prob is.

[Anonymous]

I haven't watched it to know whether it gives percentages of women that were bots, but there's that lady on the Relationships forum who's always talking about her husband who had an affair with a woman he met on AM. And I know another man who swears he hooked up with real women from AM. So they weren't ALL bots, apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was really hoping the YouTube wife would leave her husband. I haven’t finished the third part, but saw that they were still together. He was such a narcissistic jerk.

Same. At the end hey act like everything is all good now. But if I were her, I would never be able to believe him again. As a viewer I don't even trust what he's saying in this documentary.

[Anonymous]

What is really strange is that over the past 5 years--I know of several divorces because THE WIVEs were meeting men on AM and having affairs. It's all this focus on the men--but tons of married women (and single that want married men) are using this website very much today. Medium has several women that openly write about all of their escapades on that site and offer their services to men to help them write their profiles, etc..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband was on the list. We are divorced.

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I’m sorry. That must have been awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is really strange is that over the past 5 years--I know of several divorces because THE WIVEs were meeting men on AM and having affairs. It's all this focus on the men--but tons of married women (and single that want married men) are using this website very much today. Medium has several women that openly write about all of their escapades on that site and offer their services to men to help them write their profiles, etc..

That's not strange at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't watched it to know whether it gives percentages of women that were bots, but there's that lady on the Relationships forum who's always talking about her husband who had an affair with a woman he met on AM. And I know another man who swears he hooked up with real women from AM. So they weren't ALL bots, apparently.

There were real women and the men had affairs with them but it sounded like AM started creating fake profiles at a certain point. I think because they didn't have enough women as the popularity exploded worldwide and it generated revenue. Every response cost money. The owner wanted to maximize profit. One woman who had been on it but hadn't looked at it in years had men contact her who thought she was talking to them. They were being contacted by her profile by bots.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, the customer service lady who would lie to wives who would call. All while giggling that she is monogamous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is really strange is that over the past 5 years--I know of several divorces because THE WIVEs were meeting men on AM and having affairs. It's all this focus on the men--but tons of married women (and single that want married men) are using this website very much today. Medium has several women that openly write about all of their escapades on that site and offer their services to men to help them write their profiles, etc..

That's not strange at all.

More women are doing this crap today. More are cheating than men in some age groups. It’s destroying families.

[Anonymous]

Surprising no one is bringing up that the CEO is basically a human trafficker? He paid for 18-19-year-old girls to have sex with? To me that is the bigger bombshell.