BUSINESS INSIDER – Nov 23 – Invisible Girlfriend is a new startup that provides users with fake girlfriends so they have a better story to tell to their friends and family. The company has three monthly subscription options: "Just Talking," which offers text messages, automated calls, and gifts for $9.99, "Getting Serious," with the previous options plus Facebook relationship change, and real voicemails and gifts for $29.99, and "Almost Engaged," which offers "custom girlfriend characterization" and live phone calls at $49.99.
by Paul Szoldra
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It is interesting that the idea was initially pitched as a joke. I only wonder what this fake relationship will do to the users emotionally. It is easy to say that they are only signing up to convince others that they are in a relationship, but at some point they may grow to rely on the interaction, fake or not.
It is interesting that the idea was initially pitched as a joke. I only wonder what this fake relationship will do to the users emotionally. It is easy to say that they are only signing up to convince others that they are in a relationship, but at some point they may grow to rely on the interaction, fake or not.