There is a new service available for those who are interested in pretending as though
they have a significant other it's an app known as Invisible Girlfriend and two guys
by the names of Matthew Homann and Kyle Tabor created it now the way that it works is you
fork over $25 and Invisible Girlgriend or boyfriend populating your phone with text
messages and photos to establish the 100 percent really relationship that you are totally in
right now that's Daily Dots words on this every user gets ten free text messages with
his or her fake beau upon signup if you want more than that and it will probably require
more than that to fool everyone (including yourself) into thinking you're in love you
will have to pay the $25 monthly fee the paid version of the service gives you 100 text
messages, 10 voicemails, and one handwritten postcard from your invisible girlfriend or
boyfriend so when I was reading about this I was thinking wow that really sad like why
would people do this don't lie to yourself like why would you lie to people and tell
them when you're in a relationship and you're not the best way to get in to a relationship
is to tell people you're single and ready to mingle but in this case you're like no
I'm totally taken well then you should shutting off possibilities but there are good uses
for this so I'm going to let you jump in well one good use first before we to the funny
stuff I mean one good use let's say you were in a country where being gay was illegal or
you were in the south where maybe being gay isn't as accepted you could fake a heterosexual
relationship while actually being in a gay relationship that would just open a Pandora's
box of living a double and all kinds of terrible stuff but I could see certain circumstances
especially in places certain types of relationships aren't allowed I could see a legitimacy for
it the thing that I think is particularly interesting so you get the social media component
right so you're going to get Facebook posts and things like that OK so that's find that's
for the public when you get the text messages and the hand written note and voicemail do
you go around showing people right that's the interesting part cause then it's like
you're really pushing the lie it's one thing to do the passive lie where it's like someone's
just posting on the Facebook page and other people can see it that kind of thing but then
there a very active lie being like Ma look at my phone listen to this voicemail I got
from this person that I'm dating yeah yeah yeah but I mean we do live in the age of over
sharing and some people will do this I've done this once before like you'll do a screen
shoot of a text message exchange that's like particularly funny or something and then you'll
post it on social media like people do things like that so maybe they'll find clever ways
to do it but yeah I agree with you it's kind of strange that not only are you paying a
service to send you these fake messages then you have to do the leg worth of going around
and showing like see see I have a boyfriend yeah it's kinda strange now here are some
other good uses for it if if you have these issues so let's say you are single and you're
really hyper focused on your career or your education and you just don't really want to
waste any of your time in a relationship not that relationships are a waste of time but
nonetheless you can now kinda get family members off your back be like year I got a significant
other but here's the issue with family they're going to want to meet your significant other
how long can you get this charade going do you get to pick do you get to pick where oh
I'm in a long distance relationship he lives in Kolalampore you know what I mean like how
far does this person live like right that's the thing eventually this thing will crumble
around you as most lies usually do eventually they you know it's like when you flush the
toilet and it's swirling and world and eventually it's going to just go down that's pretty much
what's going to be happening here we did this story on my show today and I was thinking
like doesn't this show how exhausting social media has become sort of like that you could
in the old days you could either be in a relationship or not or lie about it now if you're going
to lie about you have to actually pay someone to give you the proof of the lie itís just
like it's a lot that people are putting out there on a day to day basis absolutely there's
a lot of pressure to over share a lot of people do over share it's a huge part of our lives
today it's interesting yeah how much are you paying Christian per month to pretend to be
your boyfriend by the way not much alright this sounds like itís a good opportunity
for them to open up and expand it even if there a person just acts like they are your
significant other boyfriend or girlfriend in this situation where you give $100 they'll
an actual person that know things you're saying and then you know it going to advance further
and then for $200 a month I'll send you a couple pictures you know like there's a guy
who like my girlfriend will probably send me a couple nudies that start happening this
could to a point where somebody could really make some money doing this it might turn into
a porn service right that's what I was going to say for $300 they'll sleep with you and
then it's basically prostitution it all comes around expansion I like that you have to scale
things out creating jobs these apps have to be profitable what happens after you sleep
with them what's next then you gotta fake the marriage fake the pictures that sound
disastrous and then you want to get out of the fake marriage so you have to fake a funeral
that a good point that's usually the best way to get out of a marriage by the way there
is one other good purpose for so for those who are maybe a little socially awkward and
they want a little training on how to be in a relationship this could actually be a good
service because when you're getting these text messages they're from real people they're
not from a robot or something a real person actually text messages you so it might good
at easing yourself into interacting with a significant other in the future I don't know
that's another possibility you're trying I mean you're trying to bring it home into something
that decent and whatever listen not all of us are skilled in romance see what I'm saying
ahh yes