Startup Offering a Virtual Girlfriend on Facebook

I feel like if this is at all successful, it's just going to get shut down by Facebook for creating fake users.

If your monthly fee / microtransaction payment is declined, be prepared for a nasty breakup.

I think this is the first time I've ever seen a story on HN and wished it was on Slashdot for the comments.

Virtual social proof. An ePivot. Pre-selection DHV as a service. I love it.

I'm willing to bet that a lot of you are only upset because you didn't have the idea first ;<)

I'm pretty sure this takes outsourcing a step or two too far.<p>Personally, I'm hoping it's some kind of social experiment, and they're going to come out with some OKCupid-style expository blog posts in a few months.<p>(If anyone's seriously considering this, do ask yourself if it's really going to make you happy ...)

Only 8 more days till April 1st

Great, now when I see those insipid Microsoft ("To the cloud!") commercials, I'll envision some lonely guy with a bottle of lotion, logging into Facebook.

My perfect girlfriend can solve the P vs NP problem.

To make it especially realistic, they could offer a physical address to which you could send gifts. As an add-cost feature.

Talk about solving a burning market need..

if they can pull it off (terms of service violations and what not) this will be brilliant, it is just a viral bomb ready to go off the things that can happen. I see chat roulette like kind of infamy very quickly.

It's just the next logical step!<p>First SaaS then PaaS and now RaaS: Relationship as a Service

Good plug for launchrock - this should get some visibility, surely.

cloudboyfriend.com suspiciously absent. market opportunity, anyone?

Whatever happened to good old-fashioned sockpuppeting? :-)

i'd take a virtual boyfriend as long as he can deliver

it won't work