A lot of sites have fake sex personals profiles and fake members set to
inflate their numbers member.
Not exact matches
These
inflated numbers were meant to impress
members of Congress, the media, and any evangelicals who took a different view.
People (or theoretically the service itself)
inflating the
number of
members when these people are either not real or not really interested in the service.
This is not always the case, since they can use these profiles to
inflate their
numbers of how many
members they have.
It is my theory that this activity
inflated the membership
numbers for Yahoo! although many of these
members were never all that active.