It was really only a matter of time until prostitution came to Facebook, and it finally has for the low low price of only $5.
The Washington Post has an article about how you can get a Facebook girlfriend for just $5. The article focuses on fiverr.com user Cathy01 who has offered up these services to the social network connected lonely. Those who have replaced real life interactions with their online connections can now rejoice!
This kind of service isn’t a new idea. In fact CloudGirlfriend has been offering the same type of services. The big difference is those girls aren’t real, but rather computer algorithms hiding behind some very well done Flickr photos. While the algorithms may be ideal for efficiency, they tend to be a little TOO perfect.
What makes this advertisement on fiverr.com somewhat different is that there appears to be a real person helping to promote this faux romance.
But Cathy01 isn’t the only one offering her emotional wares for the needy. She now has competition from fiverr.com user Leite686 who not only offers to be your Facebook everything for 7 Days, but she has immediate availability with no orders in the que! I’m sure that there will be more of these offers popping up over the next few days, months, and years. Of course, whether it is a real person represented truthfully in these profiles is something that remains to be seen. Kind of like those sex lines where you think you’re talking to a 23 year old co-ed but it’s really a 43 year old stay at home mom looking to pay her rent.
While many people may see it as the answer to their socially inadequate profiles, the truth is that all this will do is clutter and devalue the network over the long term. It’s a big negative and I, for one, wish it hadn’t gone this way.
