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For sale: fake, yet passable Facebook girlfriends

By | January 16, 2013, 8:07 PM PST

Girls, Girls, Girls!

Girls, Girls, Girls!

If your Facebook profile is feeling lonesome, or nobody really believes that your unseen Canadian partner actually has the flu (a nod to Broadway’s Avenue Q), a Brazilian service will conjure up a fake girlfriend to round out your virtual identity.

NamoroFake.com will create the appearance of a love interest on Facebook for US$40, or offer up an ex-lover for 19.00 if your deception should be both dishonest and frugal. Editor’s note: Being willing to do something like this might be why some prospective clients are single to begin with - just a thought.

Namoro makes the lie convincing through matching you up with your “girfriend’s” fake profile, complete with 30 days of comments and the quintessential relationship status change. Everybody knows that it’s not ‘official’ if your status doesn’t say so. That’s today’s youth’s version of a “promise ring.”

There’s still time to think about whether you’d really want to mislead those close to you about the more intimate aspects of your life. The service isn’t readily available now, because all of the profiles are busy. It takes time and effort to create that loving feeling - minus the heartache and tribulations of a breakup.

Namoro is soliciting for profiles of women to join its relationship bordello with profit sharing as the incentive. Not just anyone can sign on: prospects must look “presentable” enough to meet the high standards of men or women who would use their likeness in an elaborate fraud.

If you’re just looking for something platonic or are waiting for the men to come online, you can buy your “friends” too. My only question is, is my iPad a cheap date?

(image credit: David Worthington)

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this is unusual - fake GF?
A man with any self confidence does not worry that much whether he has a GF or not, or whether others see any evidence of one. He does not have to brag about it. In today's permissive society, where all kinds of things are done, it may be a way to head off office gossipers who would presume the wrong orientation to a straight male acquaintence who leads a private life and does not casually display evidence of his GF. I guess next thing they will come up with is fake boy friends for the ladies, and fake gay partners, fake parents, whole fake families, fake cars (check out my '67 Barracuda.. Oh, it's stored in Canada right now (how convenient)), etc. Are all the lies really necessary? When do the lies stop? Usually when they are found out, and with much worse consequences and real damage to a good reputation.
Posted by opcom
17th Jan
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Well, I guess it's better than finding out...
...that your "girlfriend" is fake:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/notre-dame-football-star-manti-teo-dead-girlfriend/story?id=18232374
Posted by JohnMcGrew@...
17th Jan
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ouch
that's pretty darn cruel.
Posted by David Worthington
17th Jan
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LOL.. You were the ideal customer that came to mind McGrew...
When I read this, I thought to myself.. Who is the typical desperate delusion loser that would use something like this? And I immediately thought.. John McGrew aka Hates Idiots... LOL!!! And here you are adding your unique dribble to this very blog...
Posted by i8thecat4
17th Jan
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Another fine rebuttal...
...from my hate puppet. I'll never need to go to the trouble of creating straw men as long as there is an ample supply of people like this.
Posted by JohnMcGrew@...
18th Jan
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instead of fake girlfriends
on stupid electronic fluff,
how about real stories related to the concept
of Smartplanet?
Posted by affordablecomputerguy@...
17th Jan
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