Fake girlfriend, revisited

I wonder how does this business scale. $15 a month is not much for paying salary.

That's romantic comedy stuff. Both sides believe they've hired a bot but have been secretly matched and are just talking to each other, to save costs. They are really happy with the "relationship" they have with the "bot". When they find out, they are outraged and sue the company...

A single person can obviously maintain multiple profiles. Sending some text messages to a fake partner isn't exactly a full time job.

I used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.

Made an account just to post this. I used to follow a columnist called Jann Burner.

That's what he wrote on the subject:

``` And now, a closer look at what is to be in store for us. Computers will become totally voice activated mimetic devices cued to their owner so no one else will be able to activate them. The good ones will not even be deceived by a recording of their owner’s voice. They will “seem” to become attached and will be able to pick up subtle clues that will be undetectable by technicians. Somehow (no one will be quite sure how) they will be able to tell the real from the Memorex. They will be able to read “stress” levels in their owner’s voice and eye like an attentive pet. “What’s wrong John? Have an especially difficult day?” Wireless wearables will become the style. No keyboard, no mouse, no monitor. The hardware will be comprised of two parts: a small pager like device which will attach to the belt and a headband with a small fiber optic cable which will twist gracefully around the face and project the full computer image directly onto the retina of the eye. The ultimate “head’s up display”.

Websites will have come a long way. People will go from designing personal web pages and Facebook entries to personal virtual reality sites. Places you will be able to hang out in. Places friends will be able to visit, the ultimate private club or salon. Some will be free floating and move like the frequency of a cell phone, never to be in the same place twice. Others will be so solid they will be constructed over generations and handed down from father to son, mother to daughter. Like cybernetic jewelry. Creations in cyberspace will be an investment.

Eventually people will begin to put their memories of their lives on their sites. At first they will be like a grand photo-album, but then things will get more complicated. People will begin to journal their memories (cleaned up and detuned or exaggerated). This will be called their Book Of Life and when you fall in love or become very close with someone you will share your “Book of Life”. You will go to their past (as they remember it or as they want it to be remembered) which is not to say that that is how it really was, but then, that is another story. In the end, who cares? The motto of the day will be,”Intention is Everything”.

Some people will constantly hang out in their own Memory Palaces. Some will call this Cyber-Porn. Masturbatory! With some people, taking a walk through their Book of Life will be like a walk through a very cultured and cluttered museum. With others it will be a walk in a park. With still others, you might not want to walk through their Book alone, without a guide and without protection. And especially not at night, even Cyber-Night. It might resemble a cross between Times Square, New Year’s Eve 1999, and a car crash in progress with everything happening at once and yet with all the separate incidents frozen in time, to be savored later, like the left-overs from a frozen dinner. From a Jeffery Dhamer buffet.

Some people will actually hire others to design their sites, so it will be dramatic or pretty or impressively chic. Beware of anyone who has someone else design their Book of Life.

Some people will get so caught up they will actually begin to live in their book and they will get stuck somewhere between their restructured memory of a past and their fantasy imagining of a future. Their real life simply will become a maintenance site for their bio-computer, a place to sleep, fuel the body, take a dump and sweat, so that the mind might remain healthy, so as to allow them to really live and move through their silicon/crystal version of consciousness, through their Book of Life…their Memory Palace. Their perfect place to be where no wind blows. The center of the cyclone. This will be more addictive than any drug. ``` See more at: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=143352

He also has more on it: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=186379