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Female-name Chat Users Get 25 Times More Messages

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Science Daily ? A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering found that chatroom participants with female usernames received 25 times more threatening and/or sexually explicit private messages than those with male or ambiguous usernames.

Female usernames, on average, received 163 malicious private messages a day in the study, conducted by Michel Cukier, assistant professor in the Center for Risk and Reliability in the Clark School's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and an affiliate of the university's Institute for Systems Research, and sophomore computer engineering student Robert Meyer.

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hmmm, maybe it's time to change my username 😛
 
Originally posted by: PHiuR
why would you want that many messages...it would be annoying.
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I was joking. yeah, of course it would be annoying.

we could do a similar study here at ATOT. I predict people with the blond-haired babe avatar get more annoying messages. 😛
 
perhaps that's why lolawiz changed her avatar, if my memory is serves me.

But yeah, ATOT, is the perfect example. If a "girl" made a thread that said "hi" it would get many more responses...
 
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