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Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by mistercow »

smokeyj wrote: post #53
vecinu wrote: post #36

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To extrapolate this, people have taken advantage of other peoples' weaknesses. Gambling, drug addictions, suicidal thoughts...everyone has a weakness that can be exploited. I reiterate your statement; exploiting that vulnerability IS to blame and should not be applauded.

Can exploiting human nature be a positive thing? If looking healthy to attract the opposite sex can encourages people to work out, is that exploiting our "simple" sexual nature? To me, pretending to have a girlfriend seems as deceitful as dying your hair. Now, I've never done either so I can't say for certain. Furthermore, if your perception of someone changes because they're in a relationship, then maybe you should…

>Can exploiting human nature be a positive thing?

It becomes a matter of semantics. Certainly human nature can be used in positive ways. There are techniques you can use to hack on your own brain. For example, if you want to become more conscientious and involved in improving society, signing petitions and donating to charities is a way that you can trick your brain into making you do so. Merely writing down statements and signing your name to them can actually cause you to change your beliefs.

But I don't know if "exploit" is the best word for that.

Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by jessedhillon »

neumann_alfred wrote: post #106
lhnz wrote: post #98

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Correct but why make a principled stand on this? Those who wish to claw onto status will like you for this, and those that don't will like you for your underlying personality. The former are quite flawed but they're still people.

The former are quite flawed but they're still people. Which is kind of the reason for making a principled stand: They are human, they aren't going to go away anytime soon, they want to be respected or even loved, and extreme shallowness makes it impossible for me to do that. If I didn't have at least a remaining iota of goodwill towards them, I'd exploit them instead of bitching at them.

... makes it impossible for me to do that.

Nobody cares about your love and admiration unless you're somebody whose interest they think they should seek. That's why you're complaining about not having proper, willing targets for your affection -- desirable people have the problem of having their attention excessively demanded. The way you signal that you have something interesting is by displaying evidence of demand, not by standing up and reciting principles.

Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by mylittlepony »

transitionality wrote: post #122
mylittlepony wrote: post #93

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That's not true.

Yes it is. It's how journalism works -- including paparazzi journalism.

Have you studied the subject? I doubt it, so please stop. Paparazzi usually focus on public figures like actors, which don't have the same rights over their own image, since they have voluntarily exposed themselves to the public.

Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by JonasKingsley »

goggles99 wrote: post #44

Am I missing something? Why pay $40 for this??? Cant you just do it yourself for free in about 5 minutes? You could probably set up a fake account with pics found online and have it all set up in less time than it would take to use this service.

That's $40 Brazilian reals... roughly $20 USD.

Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by neumann_alfred »

jessedhillon wrote: post #123
neumann_alfred wrote: post #106

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The former are quite flawed but they're still people. Which is kind of the reason for making a principled stand: They are human, they aren't going to go away anytime soon, they want to be respected or even loved, and extreme shallowness makes it impossible for me to do that. If I didn't have at least a remaining iota of goodwill towards them, I'd exploit them instead of bitching at them.

... makes it impossible for me to do that. Nobody cares about your love and admiration unless you're somebody whose interest they think they should seek. That's why you're complaining about not having proper, willing targets for your affection -- desirable people have the problem of having their attention excessively demanded. The way you signal that you have something interesting is by displaying evidence of demand,…

Hahaha, you wish! My problem isn't lack of demand, if anything it's women pouting because I ignore them, and dudes being aggro because said women are pouting. so thanks for playing. Maybe you should simply speak for yourself and otherwise get off the strawmen...

Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by [deleted] »

neumann_alfred wrote: post #126
jessedhillon wrote: post #123

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... makes it impossible for me to do that. Nobody cares about your love and admiration unless you're somebody whose interest they think they should seek. That's why you're complaining about not having proper, willing targets for your affection -- desirable people have the problem of having their attention excessively demanded. The way you signal that you have something interesting is by displaying evidence of demand,…

Hahaha, you wish! My problem isn't lack of demand, if anything it's women pouting because I ignore them, and dudes being aggro because said women are pouting. so thanks for playing. Maybe you should simply speak for yourself and otherwise get off the strawmen...

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Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by kahawe »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #71
kahawe wrote: post #70

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Playing devil's advocate here: Ultimately, isn't this like a form of story-telling? A lot of books claim they are based on a true story, faking the story online makes it feel even more real and as long as it isn't abused to extort money or post naked pictures... as long as it was just people's interested they invested in the story.. is that such a bad thing?

Story-telling is story-telling, you know you're reading fiction. This kind of thing is lying, and lies are bad, because they poison the 'great web of causality' and can do lots of damage in completely unpredicatble ways.

The point is, no matter what you read or hear on the web or anywhere else... shouldn't you always be asking yourself how much you let it affect you? The illusion that the web is that one place to figure out more "truth" than in person, well those times are looong gone - see grassroot advertising and fake forum posts paid for by companies and all that.

Every time you give either time and/or money, you absolutely always could possibly get scammed so the only way you can deal with this is asking yourself if you for yourself and your own sake care and want to do something or if you will just quietly follow whatever story is being told and not let it mess with you.

If what you say is true and some forum posts could indeed "do lots of damage" then it is all the more necessary that people wake up and understand that they shouldn't just blindly trust people on the web, just as much as they don't blindly trust strangers on the street.

Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by jessedhillon »

neumann_alfred wrote: post #126
jessedhillon wrote: post #123

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... makes it impossible for me to do that. Nobody cares about your love and admiration unless you're somebody whose interest they think they should seek. That's why you're complaining about not having proper, willing targets for your affection -- desirable people have the problem of having their attention excessively demanded. The way you signal that you have something interesting is by displaying evidence of demand,…

Hahaha, you wish! My problem isn't lack of demand, if anything it's women pouting because I ignore them, and dudes being aggro because said women are pouting. so thanks for playing. Maybe you should simply speak for yourself and otherwise get off the strawmen...

Um... okay whatever you say captain. I'm sure a baller like you doesn't have to prove your player status to a random nobody on a nerd forum, so I appreciate your going out of the way to do it. Coupled with your previous complaints about how unfair social dynamics can be, you don't at all sound pathetic.

Re: Website Sells Fake Facebook Girlfriends

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Post by olivier1664 »

GBond wrote: post #113
personlurking wrote: post #20

"To bolster the ranks of fake girlfriends, the website is inviting women to send in their profiles, with a 50 percent profit-sharing incentive." The site (namorofake.com.br) now says their fake gf profiles are all real women. They've also got a selection of types ranging from Ficante (Hook-up), Ex-Namorada (Ex girlfriend), Namorada (Girlfriend) and Namorada Virtual (Virtual Girlfriend). The difference between the lat…

This company's product has a critical mass marketing problem; as more people know about this Brazilian company and the biz model, the more the product is devalued. i.e. Now that I know this, I'm just going to assume that all my FB friends who are in a long distance relationship with a Brazilian girl are in a fake relationship.

Does it limit to Brazilian?

If the market is here and if they pay $20 per month per annimated fake profile, the problem is now to find a way to emulate fakes profiles to seems real. It would be like playing to the Sim, but being paid.

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