These are the facts, Isis

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Jan 28, 2009 at 17:59

90% of the young men are very poor and living from pay to pay and away from home but are still able to have internet access.

According this to this, just over 10% of Egyptians have internet access. That is the exact opposite of what you have said. When you consider the population growth and the infrastructure problems, I find your statement that much harder to believe.

Summary - not all the men on the internet from the middle east are "well-to-do". My conclusion is that they are poor and desparate and generally not "well-to-do".

No one ever said they were; I won't argue that. My point was that the men discussed on this site are not the gentle shepards we hear about in stories from Bible. They are very much in tune with the secular world (ie scamming). I suppose some are desperate, but this is also a business for many. Literally, Isis.

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