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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May '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Not as much as you embraced Madame Secretary...
Jun '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
EJHill
Not as much as you embraced Madame Secretary... · 5 minutes ago
Sure, EJ, make fun of little TR. I'm used to it. Always chosen last. Slow at dodge ball. Chick repeller. Sand kicked in my face (by girls). Shunned by nerds. Pitied by self-pitiers. Keep it up--maybe in future there won't be a TR to kick around anymore. I'll be my room with my stuffed animals and my Colico. [Sound of door slamming].
May '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Naw! Everybody loves a little TR. But a little TR goes a looooong way.
Jul '11
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Bully!
Oct '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Tab, you're trying to beat EJ with words? He's got an endless supply of those things that equal a thousand words each.
Oct '11
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
This immediately brought to mind something that happened where I worked about 25 years ago. Photos of everyone in the department were posted on a bulletin board just outside of the elevator. A fellow employee (who happened to be the Libertarian presidential candidate not that long ago) was planning a trip to visit his mother. He asked the secretary if he could borrow some of the photos from the display so that he could show his mother the women he worked with. He only selected those that pictured girls who were young and pretty.
Aug '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
That slate isn't blank. · 26 minutes ago
Not anymore... I guess Albright is all right. · 2 hours ago
Jun '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
EJHill
Naw! Everybody loves a little TR. But a little TR goes a looooong way. · 57 minutes ago
I surrender, unconditionally. Either that or the Mission Impossible team goes in and strips EJ's computer of photoshop capability.
Edited on January 23, 2012 at 11:16pmMay '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Send your $25 to Blue Yeti and he'll pass it on to me (Less 15% agent fee) and nobody else gets hurt...
Jan '11
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
EJ - that Ed Asner photoshop was great - do one with Madeleine Albright!
Sep '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
I'll be your flight instructor on Facebook for $50/hour. That is, as soon as I get my CFI certification...
Aug '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Today, she's selling her image as a fake girlfriend.
Five years from now, she'll be bearding for her gay friends.
Ten years from now, she'll be an escort.
In fifteen years, she'll be doing cougar porn.
In twenty, she'll have found Jesus, and be living in a trailer in Slab City.
Dec '10
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
For what it's worth - I had a Facebook friend request this morning from a girl named Michelle - and lo and behold she had the same profile pic as the one that Rob showed on this stream!
The message attached to the request said that she had worked at the same company as me. That's curious because the company in question consists of myself and my business partner - no employees. And she sure doesn't look like my partner, who happens to be bald.
Jan '12
Re: I Will Be Your Girlfriend on Facebook for $5
Precisely! She is every bit as real as anyone else on FB.