Do You Want to Date My Facebook Avatar? For $5, You Can!

File this under the steadily growing category, "And they say SLers are weird": If you're a Facebook user, you can now pay someone to be your girlfriend on Facebook. Thanks (?) to a site called GirlfriendHire, you just fork five dollars over, and get a Facebook user with a hot babe photo and bio -- basically an avatar, because who knows anything about the real person actually running the profile? -- to friend you, and then let you designate her as being "in a relationship" with you, and then post flirty or salacious stuff on your wall for your real friends on Facebook to see:

This internet love theater isn't happening in a vacuum. Michelle (or her equivalent) is posting for the sake of showing her affection to everyone you already know. It's all over your wall—that's what you paid for in the first place. So be prepared to offer some sort of explanation for this sudden flurry of strange female interest you've encountered.

More on Gizmodo here. This goes right next to my recent post, "Estranged Real Life Couple Argue Through the Facebook Avatar of Their Unborn Child".

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[Adeon Writer]

Under Facebook ToS, wouldn't the girl be REQURED to be her listed identity? To my knowledge Facebook still dosn't allow fictional accounts, correct?

[Hamlet Au]

You say that like it's actually enforced on a rigorous or consistent basis. :)

[Seymore Steamweaver]

Just checked out the site. Wish I thought of it first. Sad that it's needed, brilliant that it exists.

[foneco zuzu]

;)

[iggy]

"The Facebook Sonnet"
by Sherman Alexie

Welcome to the endless high-school
Reunion. Welcome to past friends
And lovers, however kind or cruel.
Let’s undervalue and unmend.

The present. Why can’t we pretend
Every stage of life is the same?
Let’s exhume, resume, and extend
Childhood. Let’s all play the games.

That occupy the young. Let fame
And shame intertwine. Let one’s search
For God become public domain.
Let church.com become our church.

Let’s sign up, sign in, and confess
Here at the altar of loneliness.

[Adeon Writer]

Point taken. Still, curious if a site's main purpose technically involves infracting another's user agreement.

[sirhc desantis]

Wish I'd thought to say that before Seymoure there :) Probably has existed for ever just never been fronted quite this way. I love it, off to open another bogus account....

[Wizard Gynoid]

ERM. what's to prevent one from setting up an alt Facebook account as your own girlfriend? easy way to save five bucks.

[Melponeme_k]

I wonder how many of the photos used by this "service" are stolen from the websites of women.

[Yffaa Ka Duffa]

Hehe