Cloud girlfriends on Facebook: Cool or creepy?
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Looking for the perfect girlfriend'? Soon, there will be an app for that... sort of. "Cloud Girlfriend," the latest buzz-generating internet startup, plans to offer virtual girlfriends who
will post adoring messages on your Facebook wall, or shower you with praise on Twitter, so your real friends will think you've got it going on. The company's co-founder, David Fuhriman,
promises that the "cloud girlfriends" will be a network of actual human beings — "not bots" — so users will also get the comfort of real, wholesome interaction. Is this an innovative way to
help people project the image they want, or is it just a little sad?
It's sad — and not just a little: "I can think of a few reasons guys would want this," says Kate Torgovnick at The Frisky, "to make another girl jealous or to convince friends and family
members that they’re straight if they’re still in the closet." But any way you look at it, getting a "fake girlfriend" is pretty darn pathetic — especially since the website advertises its
faux lover wearing zebra-print high heels. Ew.
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