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.
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.
Posted by: Courtney | Nov 27, 2013 at 11:05 AM