In One Year of Letters, I tell you about my brief foray into Ashley Madison.
August 26, 2105
Dear Reader,
All right, I’m fessin’ up. I signed up for Ashley Madison, and my email is probably on that list.
Now that you’ve climbed back into your chair, I’ll tell you I signed up with full knowledge of my husband, and I did so to research the site for a friend. No, really, I did it for my friend. I never went past the free trial and never provided a credit card, and I closed my account after a single day and several emails from some desperate dudes.
The desperation made me sad, that these folks would reach out to a faceless stranger (I didn’t post a picture). The messages also skeeved me out, but they didn’t anger me. Who am I to judge these guys? As Glenn Greenwald has written, how can we judge people whose private lives and…
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