I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Not me, of course. But this girl is showing some real entrepreneurial spirit:
I'll be your girlfriend on facebook for 10 days. I'm Cathy, a 23 year old student and I live in New York city. There's a second option by the way: If you want a few messages (3 max.) on your profile to make somone jealous that's also possible, just send me the message(s) and the facebook-link! byebye!x (I don't! do any promotional stuff!
This is probably a moral failing of mine -- well, one of many -- but I can't quite figure out what's wrong with this. I mean, I know somewhere deep down it's creepy and wrong, but I sort of think this kind of thing is inevitable. If our on-line personae are really just avatars in the massive multi-player online role-playing game called "Facebook," is this any different from being a more powerful wizard and upgrading your sword, or whatever. (You can tell that I don't play those games....but I am on Facebook.)
I love that she doesn't do any "promotional" stuff -- that's where she draws the line. She'll pretend to be your girlfriend, but she won't sell Red Bull.
So, a couple of questions for the business-minded: 1. Is this business scalable? And 2. Is it something we can all start a business doing?
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Mar '11
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The whole thing collapses as soon as she becomes famous as the "rent-a-girlfriend". Guys will take one look at your "girlfriend" on FB, and say "So you paid the 5 bucks, eh?".
BTW... here's a real kicker. How do we know this is really a chick? What if it's some random dude using various model pics? When he gets busted, THEN how would you feel when your friends found out who your girlfriend was? Shades of Internet Relay Chat in the 90's when every "hot girl" was really some hairy Norwegian dude named Sven.
Edited on January 23, 2012 at 5:06pmJun '10
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Rob Long:
So, a couple of questions for the business-minded: 1. Is this business scalable? And 2. Is it something we can all start a business doing? · · 3 minutes ago
Been there, done that. The women are thieves, the Johns are drunk, and the cops are corrupt. I'll pass.
Sep '10
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For a while last year I couldn't go on the net without one of those ads showing up in my browser. It was kind of funny and cute the first time, and progressively more annoying thereafter.
I'm not convinced that there's an actual "girl" at the other end of this, either. They (whoever "they" are) were running a different girl on the ad then.
Aug '10
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Can we assume that this "girl" does not actually exist in "real world" form?
As such, what is to stop my from creating my own on-line "girlfriend" for free? What services does this person offer that I cannot provide myself using photos from Flickr?
Jul '10
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No market. You can slap a prettier face on a sock puppet and do it yourself. Five minutes, no limit on messages. It's been going on since the technology first arrived.
Sep '10
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Rob, we're both older, male, on Facebook. We have both received these ads. If there's a message here, it's a sad one.
May '10
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I'd pay five bucks to not have her face on my page.
Feb '11
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I think one look at my picture would prevent anyone from ponying up five bucks... don't you? --------------->
Nov '11
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Rob, if you need a business partner send me a message...
May '11
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Of course it's a moral failing. She has been a bad girl. A very bad girl.
Apr '11
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Well, until everyone convinced me it wasn't even a girl behind this, I thought it was the cyber version of an escort service: a pretty young women who pretends to be your girlfriend in public.
Dec '10
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Will she provide a true girlfriend experience? For example will she be upset if you forget her birthday, try to get you to stop hanging around with your, um, undesirable friends, throw away your favorite beat-up sneakers? Enquiring minds want to know.
Apr '11
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Perfect! Nerds have been dreaming of how to build their own girlfriends for years. It seems technology may actually make it happen.
Jun '11
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Rob, I have a "friend" who will make her disappear for $10 should she become, ya know, inconvenient.
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Of course it's a real girl. On Fiverr, you can hire real, random people to do random things for $5. Other ridiculous examples:
May '10
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So, Rob, what will you do for $5?
Set up, joke, set up, joke?
Sep '10
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That would be quite a biz opportunity Madame Toad: Pay me $5 or I will tell everyone I am your friend...
Jul '11
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I saw the title and was reaching for the credit card until I found out it wasn't Rob but some bimbo.
Aug '10
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First thing I do when I turn on the computer as the email loads is go to Aldaily.com and read one or two articles. The first one this morning was this one about the Internet. It uses Petronius and the famous Satyricon as a metaphor for the absolute mountain of things on the Internet to be processed. Gluttony is the theme.
This completely unnecessary Facebook enhancement ad feels kind of like the accoutrements of Trimalchio's feast. Doesn't the fact that this exists prove that the Internet is likely to collapse under the weight of it's own excesses like Nero's Rome ?
Facebook spooked me from the getgo, and haven't had time to revisit. I know it's functional and attractive, but this virtual enhancement is just like all the others. I had a friend who made millions selling a little book on the internet on how to change a portion of your body. (Not a diet.) It was a total sham, but men flocked to the site.
It's not sad, just unnecessary and too much of it will warp your sense of being and shrink your wallet ( sound like drugs ?) .
Jun '10
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I'd be happy to be someone's grandfather on Facebook. I could give unwanted advice; drop in long posts on how the current young people are going to "hell in a handbasket"; provide long anecdotes about walking five miles to school, uphill both ways; and post pictures of my nose and ear hair.
Is there a market? Or maybe I could pose it as a threat, and get protection money for not doing it.
Edited on January 23, 2012 at 6:15pm