Even if I had thought of this when I was in my youth, it would not have been technically feasible. Yes. I could have conjured up an imaginary girlfriend...many of us had them in high school. But the geeks of that era were always at the bottom of the popularity totem pole so we had to rely on our imagination to assuage our deflated egos. Yet time was on our side. It was not the popular high school jocks who went on to earn six figure salaries, but those awkward geeks that could get us to the moon and back, design awesome muscle cars, and put a personal computer on the desk of everyone that was intrigued with video games or tracking their finances on a spreadsheet.
Of course, things have changed since those days and it seems the jocks are back at the top of the totem pole--at lest those who really are good enough to become stars in college and draft picks for Pro Teams. So it did not surprise me when a certain college football star was apparently duped into a relationship with a fake girlfriend. That was sheer geekery! And I don't think we have seen the last of it.
I just came across this in one of my on-line news letter feeds:
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.
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.”
I am not trying to say that there is some hidden value in having a fake girlfriend. We surely have enough true lies to contend with in our current times. Just sayin...geeks may not be popular but they can be very clever--especially when technology is on the playing field.
ez does it!
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