Gizmodo is reporting about the popular new Facebook service – GirlfriendHire.
GirlfriendHire.com is a website that allows you to hire girls to pretend to be your girlfriend via text/Facebook, do your homework, give relationship advice, or tell you how to grow your manhood (or boyhood), all for the low, low price of $5.
The web service GirlfriendHire has what it takes to make real human relationships obsolete. And why not? Facebook has already diminished friendship to a cowering, anemic orphan of a concept. Next up: Sex and love. The site allows you to directly order a fake girlfriend for $5. It’s a deal. You’ll pay far more for a Match.com subscription, where you own only the chance of meeting someone.
Our technological age is defined by immediacy, superficiality, and isolation. We need a Buy It Now button for emotions. And now we have it, sort of. GirlfriendHire is not perfect. But for $5, it helps you look cool and feel less lonely. What other five dollar purchase can accomplish that?
She’s not going to touch you, hang out with you, or really know much of anything about you. “She” may not be a she, or a real person at all. There’s nothing wrong or immoral or dangerous about this, but…just be straight with yourself about what you’re buying here. On paper, it ain’t pretty.
I will be your internet girlfriend for $5
I will send you cute text messages for $5
I will be your facebook girlfriend for $5
I will send you flirty messages on your facebook wall for $5
Some girls offer more rarefied stuff:
I will do your homework/help research, write and proofread papers for $5
I will write a sexy story starring YOU! for $5
I will give you a list of great dubstep for $5
I will help you learn to use your iphone for $5
You’re not even really paying for romance, but for any kind of human companionship. This is more like that flirty girl who helps you in the library, who might just have a thing for you, but of course does not.
Think about what’s missing in your life. There’s a hole here to fill it. Or at least to fake filling it.
Even GirlfriendHire’s owner, Cody Krecicki, admits the place is rife with spam accounts and fraud. Over some email interviews, he recommended sorting the girl list by rating to put those with good feedback at the top. Also, look at the picture—if it doesn’t look like someone who’d really be earning money by sending Facebook messages for $5 payments, it probably isn’t an accurate avatar.
For that reason, a scattershot approach is best. Increase your chances on getting something good from the site by spreading money across multiple flings—a $35 bet should do it. It’s like tapas, only instead of tasty Spanish food, you’re buying the temporary attention of an apathetic stranger.
Checkout the original article on gizmodo.com
Sam Biddle
Gizmodo
I dont trust social network sites like Facebook or MySpace. People on there only tell you what they want you to know.
Well I suppose there are enough sorry men out there to fall for this scam.
Isn't this prostitution?
If you could call any freelance work prostitution, Id say yes, but if youre thinking of it in a sexual way, Id say no. Theres no physical contact. What I think is funny is that if youre that hard up for a girlfriend, you could always Google for some pictures and set up a phony account for your make believe girlfriend.
There's no way I would trust Facebook for dating. Honestly, the stuff that many post there is downright false.
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