Discussion:
Adult FriendFinder - A Waste Of Money
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Richard Brautigan
2008-06-22 15:08:55 UTC
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(I heard a great story about FriendFinder, the other day. It seems that
they had just terminated a senior member of the company, about two years
ago - a VP or something - and he got pissed, left the premises, and
returned with a gun. Apparently, the Palo Alto SWAT team had to be
called in!)

(Oddly, FriendFinder's Human Resources personnel neglected to mention
this colorful bit of corporate history, during the interviewing process.
I can't imagine why.)

A few words about Adult FriendFinder ... from someone who used to work
there.

80% of FriendFinder's income reportedly comes from Adult Friend Finder.

They have a couple of dozen other sites - Asian Friend Finder, German
Friend Finder, Gay Friend Finder - but none of them even earn their own
keep, it's all just fluff to hide the main event - which is selling
pornography.

And it's no coincidence that they are constantly buying up new domain
names; they simply repackage their 'singles' ads under a new name and
resell the same old tired collection of photos, all over, again and again.

I understand that they are reselling video streams imported from Nevada,
where prostitution is legal, from their websites, here in California,
and their affiliates' websites.

That is, they are pumping Nevada's biggest product out for export, over
the Internet, to communities and nations that are less than thrilled
about their business model - like The People's Republic of China, for
instance.

So, in essence, one of the biggest purveyors of porn in the United
States is right there, in the center of beautiful Palo Alto, a few
hundred feet from the sacred soil of Stanford University, itself ...
pumping out filth, and raking in money.

They keep the money coming in by hiring a steady stream of droids to
keep places like Craigslist populated with links to their affiliates' URLs.

Oh, yeah - I understand that the management of FriendFinder is Jewish, too.

I'm not saying that they are a bunch of Jewish pornographers ... or that
their multi-ethnic approach to pandering is wrong ... but it's
reasonable to wonder if there is a connection between the two facts,
don't you think?

To make matters worse, there are rumors that Adult FriendFinder does not
recycle their backup tapes, and that they are accumulating an incredible
amount of very intimate information - which accumulation can most easily
be explained by suggesting that this data has some sort of commercial
value, and that the data will be subjected to intensive data-mining ...
by parties unknown ... for reasons unknown. In short, blackmail seems
possible.

So, in conclusion, it's no coincidence that the owners of FriendFinder
are constantly checking to see where the new sign-ups are at; this is
their greatest source of income - new suckers - and so it is the one
index that they pay the most attention to.

Trust me - your money is better spent, and your privacy, better served,
by buying someone you're attracted to, some flowers ... or a drink.

(You don't hire someone ... sabotage his family's access to medical and
dental benefits ... and then, fire them, for fraudulent reasons ... on a
major holiday ... without there being consequences.)
Richard Brautigan
2008-06-22 15:15:19 UTC
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"You lost me with the interjection of race, bro… and you seemed like
such a rational guy."


Dean,

I'm sorry you allowed yourself to stop thinking. Your loss, old boy.

There are at least two critical facts you should take into consideration.

[1] Based on events, FriendFinder's management became aware, after
hiring me, that I had been terminated, a decade or so before, by Oracle
Corporation. They probably also read the contents of the website I
composed, which commemorates these events and the lawsuit that followed.
That URL is:

http://www.orafraud.info

If you review the materials therein, you will, among other things, learn
an alternative explanation for Larry Ellison's abrupt resignation from
the Chairman of the Board position, at Oracle, a few years ago, less
than 72 hours after www.orafraud.info went online ... and why he has to
content himself with being 'just' the CEO, these days.

You'll also learn that, at one time, a sizable contingent of Oracle's
population was - probably still is, at the management level - Jewish,
and that, as a natural consequence, there were quite a few Zionists
there ... as well as some members of the Jewish Defense League (an
organization which has since been driven underground, by the FBI's
[belated!] recognition of the JDL as a terrorist organization).

FriendFinder's lawyer, in particular, was very nervous around me. His
nervousness conveyed to me the fact that there was something for him to
be nervous about.

(He would make a terrible trial lawyer.)

The owner behaved the same way - he could barely meet my eyes. They
acted as if I wasn't even there.

They were afraid to even talk to me, it seemed!

I started looking at the company more closely, and I gradually realized
that everyone in the chain of management was, yes, Jewish ... and,
unless I miss my guess, they were probably related, too.

In a sense, this is hardly unusual. Small companies often practice
nepotism. However, with nepotism comes certain perceptual risks - which
is why it is usually concealed, and why those who begin to penetrate the
veil are so frequently targeted for retaliation.

Throw in the fact that the main business is peddling pornography, made
with other people's daughters, across the state line, by 'business
partners' (IE, other members of the Fam^H^H^Hfamily) ... and the whole
thing starts to smell a little sour. Particularly when one takes that
'Chosen People' thing into account. Clearly, there are at least a few
bad apples in the barrel.

I don't have any obligation to keep that particular secret.

[2] I was terminated on 03 October 2005, which is the exact equivalent
to being terminated on the 31st of December, in the Jewish calendar.
( http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday2.htm )

I had my doubts before, but that kind of forced my conclusions ... bro!

Frankly, I was and am friendly towards Jewish people.

I went to public school, here in San Francisco, with Jewish children,
whose parents were intent upon religious integration.

I went to the Unitarian Church, in San Francisco, for years ... whose
congregation was, and is, chock full of monotheists whom - for one
reason or another - choose to rub elbows with us commoners.

From the treatment I received when I attempted to discuss the events,
at Oracle, with a rabbi, at Temple Emanu-El, here in San Francisco -
they wouldn't even speak to me, even though I told them I was a member
of the San Francisco Unitarian congregation, and the manager of UUS-L,
to boot - I know that not EVERYONE in the Jewish community thinks that
monotheism, alone, is grounds for common cause.

(It's important, at this juncture, to point out that Moslems are also
monotheists, and not only that, from G-d's point of view, strict Moslems
and strict Jews must be kind of hard to tell apart ... but, also, that
whatever abuse I suffered at the hands of people whom self-identified as
Jewish ... we can only imagine how much worse it would have been, if I'd
been a dirty raghead.)

I know, now, that there are other Jewish people, who send their children
to private schools - for exactly the opposite reason, because they are
intent upon segregation. DETERMINED to segregate, as a matter of fact.

I'm sorry that there continue to be small-minded people whom are prone
to leap to conclusions based upon the most flimsy of excuses - but I
understand that, things being as they are, nature guarantees a steady
supply of new people, who will happily swallow the most absurd
statements, at face value ...

... and I am pleased to make myself available, to correct those errors,
where possible.

In closing ... did you know that sala'am and shalom are actually derived
from the same common language? These people are brothers!

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