It Takes Two to Tango...and a Cover Reveal!
It has become difficult to watch the news of the Ashley Madison data breach because something is really, really bothering me about it. It's something I read the first day it happened...
"The hackers mocked the site and the customer base, saying that 90% to 95% of the users were male."
Why had we not heard that data before? I looked up that statistic and found the company was once sued by an employee who claimed she was injured typing up thousands of fake profiles. Was she angry-typing?
But there is actually even more proof than that. Gizmodo conducted research into claims that the site was mostly female. Their investigation found that most of the members were, indeed, male. In combing the data, the Gizmodo reporter found that very few of the females on the site had ever even checked their inbox messages. Two-thirds of the men had checked their messages at least once. So who are the men communicating with on the site? Are they logging in to find empty inboxes on a regular basis? If so, wouldn't the site have died long ago?
The answer? ROBOTS! The reporter describes Ashley Madison's membership as "a science fictional future where every woman on Earth is dead, and some Dilbert-like engineer has replaced them with badly-designed robots."
After being challenged by Ashley Madison, Gizmodo dug a little deeper and found evidence that male users of the site had been contacted by bots on a fairly constant basis. They even demonstrated the computer code the site used to regularly communicate with men.
So these men were chatting with computers. Which is kind of funny, when you really think about it!
We've all seen the question, "Is online flirting cheating?" But this brings a new question. Is it cheating if the person at the other end isn't even a human being?
And now for today's cover reveal!!! S.K. Anthony will be guesting here when her book comes out in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime, check out her beautiful cover!
Synopsis:
Kevin Pierce is a teleporter, a ladies’ man, and a loyal friend . . . or so he thought.
As a genetically altered Luminary, he helps the government bring down some of the most dangerous criminals. Not very challenging if you have his special abilities. But when a group of rebel Luminaries attacks his Organization the fight for survival begins.
One shattering event after another tests the depth of his relationships, his sanity, and his powers. Emotionally torn, Kevin must choose carefully where his loyalty lies. In the middle of all the unexpected chaos he gets the biggest shock of his life when he’s faced by a betrayal he never saw coming. Angry, injured, and ready to even the score, Kevin goes Static . . .
Add it to your Goodreads *here*
"The hackers mocked the site and the customer base, saying that 90% to 95% of the users were male."
Why had we not heard that data before? I looked up that statistic and found the company was once sued by an employee who claimed she was injured typing up thousands of fake profiles. Was she angry-typing?
But there is actually even more proof than that. Gizmodo conducted research into claims that the site was mostly female. Their investigation found that most of the members were, indeed, male. In combing the data, the Gizmodo reporter found that very few of the females on the site had ever even checked their inbox messages. Two-thirds of the men had checked their messages at least once. So who are the men communicating with on the site? Are they logging in to find empty inboxes on a regular basis? If so, wouldn't the site have died long ago?
The answer? ROBOTS! The reporter describes Ashley Madison's membership as "a science fictional future where every woman on Earth is dead, and some Dilbert-like engineer has replaced them with badly-designed robots."
After being challenged by Ashley Madison, Gizmodo dug a little deeper and found evidence that male users of the site had been contacted by bots on a fairly constant basis. They even demonstrated the computer code the site used to regularly communicate with men.
So these men were chatting with computers. Which is kind of funny, when you really think about it!
We've all seen the question, "Is online flirting cheating?" But this brings a new question. Is it cheating if the person at the other end isn't even a human being?
And now for today's cover reveal!!! S.K. Anthony will be guesting here when her book comes out in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime, check out her beautiful cover!
Synopsis:
Kevin Pierce is a teleporter, a ladies’ man, and a loyal friend . . . or so he thought.
As a genetically altered Luminary, he helps the government bring down some of the most dangerous criminals. Not very challenging if you have his special abilities. But when a group of rebel Luminaries attacks his Organization the fight for survival begins.
One shattering event after another tests the depth of his relationships, his sanity, and his powers. Emotionally torn, Kevin must choose carefully where his loyalty lies. In the middle of all the unexpected chaos he gets the biggest shock of his life when he’s faced by a betrayal he never saw coming. Angry, injured, and ready to even the score, Kevin goes Static . . .
Add it to your Goodreads *here*
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