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Cloud Girlfriend will use a swarm of females to satisfy men
Cloud Girlfriend, despite what it sounds like, doesn't really have anything to do with cloud computing. Rather, it uses a cloud of women to pose as your girlfriend on Facebook, or your favorite social network of choice. The service is scheduled to launch 'soon,' and there's no indication of how much it will cost.
With the tagline 'The easiest way to get a girlfriend is to already have one,' Cloud Girlfriend promises to be a very interesting startup indeed. The brains of the operation, David Fuhriman, speaking to CNET, says it's all about fulfilling Maslow's hierarchy of needs. "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."
Our concern, of course, is that it's very nearly April 1. We're also worried by the fact that Fuhriman has a name that sounds ominously like a social subculture that we've grown strangely attracted to here in the Download Squad bunker.
Finally, just stop and think about it for a second. Because your cloud girlfriend will be entirely virtual, she could be based anywhere. She could be underage -- or overage -- or she might be someone who you know in real life. She could even be a relative of yours, and you'd never know.
Let's not forget this is the Internet we're talking about, folks. Worst case scenario, she could turn out to be a hairy, male truck driver from Texas. Such as... your dad, perhaps?
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Subscribe to commentsilkutMar 30th 2011 7:26AM
The cloud gf can also be your wife :D
scheckleyMar 30th 2011 7:55AM
@ilkut or cloud nan! the horror!
jennMar 30th 2011 9:16AM
Oh, that would be brilliant if each "cloud girlfriend" would have some sort of set appearance and personality - like a needy girl who threatens your Facebook friends out of "cloud jealousy."
JohnFordColeyMar 30th 2011 2:42PM
So let me get this straight: you describe who your perfect girlfriend is, then you get hooked up with a random girl who could be thousands of miles away, and you act like she's your real girlfriend? I don't understand, is this somebody who you could actually meet and talk to, or is it just a fake profile that the company creates in order for lonely people to pretend that they actually have a girlfriend?
Reminds me of high school when people used to say that they had a girlfriend, but she lived far away, like in Canada or something....
Sebastian AnthonyMar 31st 2011 5:17AM
@JohnFordColey That sounds about right.
Cool, huh? :)
DagzusMar 31st 2011 4:41AM
It's like a big game.When we play games as an attractive and powerful avatar, even for just 90 seconds, we take that confidence and attitude with us for 24 hours. Essentially, you're playing a game called "I have a girlfriend who adores me". You are playing a powerful avatar: the kind of person who has a gorgeous, intelligent, sparkly girlfriend, and you can take that confidence with you from the virtual into the real world.
http://whymothersneverdrinkhottea.blogspot.com/2011/03/cloud-girlfriend.html
XenoMar 31st 2011 11:23PM
@Sebastian Anthony - hahaha!
XenoMar 31st 2011 11:25PM
This is too cyberpunk for me.