[tapanar]

Article by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21446368 but might as well come from The Onion.

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Twenty-four-year-old Sophia is smart, pretty and has hopes and dreams of getting to grad school.

And for $5 she will be your girlfriend.

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"It's mostly guys trying to make someone else jealous," Sophia explains. "Or to make their profile look like they've got girls all over them."

For the money, you get a week's worth of having "in a relationship with Sophia" on your profile, as well as a few status comments and "likes".

So (virtual) relationships now have a price tag. Is there anything else that hasn't been commodified yet? Micropayments FTW.

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I got in touch with the owners to find out what was going on.

"We received 85,000 emails in [the first] three weeks from people who wanted to learn more," said co-founder David Fuhriman.

I'm starting to think that some men should never be given the red pill and deserve to live the way they do.

I am curious to see if this type of service will last for long.

[Ego]

How many relationships can you be in at one time in Facebook.

Would you be a whales boyfriend for a week for 5 smackers?

[R Smoov]

Hell yeah I would!

[Matt3B]

Saw this before, I couldn't think of any faster way of showing you've hit rock bottom.

[JoyStick]

wow dude, that's insane. some guys are hopeless.

[Tuthmosis]

So a girl thinks of yet another way to whore out her beauty to lame dudes. Surprise, surprise. I'd hate to say it, but most of the biggest inventions coming from women these days seem to be innovative whoring techniques.

[eradicator]

(02-17-2013 12:47 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote:  

So a girl thinks of yet another way to whore out her beauty to lame dudes. Surprise, surprise. I'd hate to say it, but most of the biggest inventions coming from women these days seem to be innovative whoring techniques.

you say that like it is a bad thing. (no i would never pay for sex or strippers or even an online relationship status.)


However, maybe I am missing the obvious, if someone wants a fake girlfriend on facebook, it would be really easy to just make a fake female profile(hell borrow the pix from sandra or some other online ho that is whoring herself out for $5/week) and then bam, instant fake girlfriend, free of charge.

Make her a lawyer or law school student maybe, or heck, if you are going to do this, might as well make it something fun like a marine biologist.

Use a hushmail account to set it up for a free email account(yahoo and gmail are really cracking down)

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

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marine biologist

I see what you did there