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Fake Girlfriend Service Employs Actual Women

Cloud Girlfriend will use Facebook and other social networks as a vehicle to get real women to chat.

A week ago I told you about CloudGirlfriend.com, the social network-enabled virtual girlfriend site that I suspected was a U.S. version of the popular (in Japan) Japanese dating sims.

Turns out I was wrong, sort of. The following is a note from Cloud Girlfriend’s founder. It indicates that the site will use real women. (Thus avoiding Facebook’s injunction against fake profiles.)

So it appears that in the not too distant future, men will be able to pay to have a real woman be their fake girlfriend in the increasingly alternate reality game-ish world of Facebook. If only the fictional Zuckerberg in The Social Network had access to this sort of thing in the first place, maybe he never would have built Facebook at all.

Here’s the full email from David Fuhriman, co-founder of CloudGirlfriend.com:

There has been a lot of interest in the CloudGirlfriend.com since we put up our launch page. We are currently building and will launch soon.
The site provides two main things:

1: Social Proof
Cloudgirlfriend.com’s tagline is, “The easiest way to get a girlfriend is to already have one”. Providing social proof is important part of the dating process. We all look to cues to help us navigate through life. Blogs discussing CloudGirlfriend.com have commented about only socially awkward people needing a site like this. This isn’t true, but does prove the need for the site. People who use the site don’t want to be labeled, so they can use the site to jumpstart the process of changing social perceptions about themselves.

2: Placebo Effect
The users of the site will get a therapeutic effect by using the site. In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs the base of the pyramid is physiological which is followed by safety and then love/belonging and esteem. CloudGirlfriend.com is not a new virtual porn site or an adult chat service. Those services attempt to fill a physiological need, but it does not satisfy intimacy and friendship. Those things do not build self-esteem or confidence. CloudGirlfriend.com can fulfill Maslow’s higher needs, even though the users know that the interaction is virtual. They will interact with a real person and see real profile images of the girl with whom they interact. This interaction can build confidence and esteem as well as provide real training experiences in navigating a friendship and a relationship.

Cloudgirlfriend.com is a service and we have a network of real people, not bots to manage the interaction. There will be no distinguishing features on social network profiles. CloudGirlfriend.com will enhance and not dilute the experience of users on social networks. We expect log-ins, time spent on site and page views to increase for people who are connected to a Cloud Girlfriend. Besides, there will always be more profiles of dogs and cats on social networks than there will ever be of Cloud Girlfriends.

David
Co-founder of CloudGirlfriend.com

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