I recently read that a new dating site has been launched known as “Cloud Girlfriend.” If you aren’t up to date, let me explain.
The website’s initial idea was to allow males to sign up, create their perfect girlfriend, and have her (someone who works at Cloud Girlfriend?) interact with him on his Facebook wall in order to demonstrate his popularity and success with women. Probably a good thing the creator, David Fuhriman, changed his original plan because this sounds strangely similar to the movie “Catfish” in which Ariel, 20-something male photographer from New York, and Abby, an 8 year old from rural Michigan, connect via Facebook. Ariel gets to know Abby’s entire family, including her older sister whom he fancies, only to find out the entire relationship, as well as the family’s facebook pages, was a huge hoax.
Cloud Girlfriend’s tagline states, “The best way to get a girlfriend is to already have one”. Basically, you sign up, choose a picture from a selection of faces, fill out your profile, and begin chatting away with other fake profiles as if it was your real girlfriend or boyfriend. Fuhriman says, “It can help in learning how to manage a real relationship, and they then can take it into the real world.” Okay true…or for those who have never had a real relationship, it could blur the lines between reality and fiction. It seems as though we are taking the use of social media and online dating to a whole other level.
