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“I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

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Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

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Post by unlogic »

werid wrote: post #38
smoyer wrote: post #8

I find it sad that she needs an invisible boyfriend ... her friends and family shouldn't be pressuring her and if she's got someone harassing her, will showing him a text really stop it? Both these scenarios assume she's happy without a BF but the fact that she describes feeling that she might have fallen in love could also mean she actually wants a boyfriend but can't find one. Things are tougher on women these days…

She doesn't need an invisible boyfriend. She's testing it for the article. In one of her texts to "Ryan" she writes: "Ha, you're better than my real bf".

I wonder how OK it is in their relationship to say things like that. That's obviously a joke, but it still comes quite bitter when such phrases are then revealed to general public.

Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

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Post by [deleted] »

gadders wrote: post #25
CapitalistCartr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For most people, looks ARE part of the equation. It's like removing Pi from an equation. I wonder what's going to happen when science makes looks whatever we want, like hair color.

Two people that have had surgery to look beautiful are going to marry, fall in love and start a family. And then be really surprised when their baby comes out fugly.

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Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

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Post by CmonDev »

gadders wrote: post #25
CapitalistCartr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For most people, looks ARE part of the equation. It's like removing Pi from an equation. I wonder what's going to happen when science makes looks whatever we want, like hair color.

Two people that have had surgery to look beautiful are going to marry, fall in love and start a family. And then be really surprised when their baby comes out fugly.

He meant genetic engineering of adults. Inheritable.

Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

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Post by Spearchucker »

Kurtz79 wrote: post #40
werid wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She doesn't need an invisible boyfriend. She's testing it for the article. In one of her texts to "Ryan" she writes: "Ha, you're better than my real bf".

It's sad there are people for which having an invisible boyfriend/girlfriend is an appealing idea (which is the entire premise of the service), regardless if it's the case with the writer of the article. "On its Web site, Invisible Boyfriend calls itself “believable social proof”: When your mom won’t stop asking you when you’re going to settle down, or your weird male acquaintance keeps hitting on you, you can just w…

It's also sad that people are saddened by others not like them. The world would be a lot nicer if we accepted, instead of being saddened.

Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

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Post by nissimk »

This article was great. I especially liked:

   “Oh my God,” I thought. “This total stranger, whoever he or she is, thinks I cry myself to sleep while watching public television and texting a paid fake boyfriend I named after an actor.”
To all you folks saying this is really sad, or wrong, this is a novelty. It's like the digital equivalent of a gag gift. It's a great conversation starter and really very funny.

Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

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Post by hobs »

pizza234 wrote: post #13
siscia wrote: post #6

I found it so wrong... Sentiments are real, I don't think anybody should play with other person feeling... Of course the user signed up, and they think that this is what they want, but I honestly believe that nobody want to risk to fail in love for a nobody...

The concepts involved in the article are confusing attraction with love. Independently of how arbitrary attraction and love are, there's certainly a difference between them, depth being the divider. With this in mind, the "falling in love" the author is talking about, which may also apply to the crowds using such service, is the equivalent of a teenager "falling in love" with, say, Tom Cruise. Although of course, ser…

I don't even think it is attraction, just a person (like most) who craves additional acknowledgement and attention because it is a powerful feeling.

I have seen people go out craving attention and not being satisfied until they have gotten a hit from someone.

To me it is the same impulse that has people meticulously manage a facebook profile so they can get kudos from practical strangers.

Re: “I paid $25 for an Invisible Boyfriend, and I think I might be in love”

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Post by technofiend »

drcomputer wrote: post #17

People used to look at me weird when I explained how I was paranoid that someone was routing all of my conversations between multiple people, in an effort to cluster intelligence and intellectual contributions without any participant knowing what they were contributing to. Take that, therapy. Yes, the paranoia was somewhat imaginative, but it was an exaggeration of something that actually can be mechanized. The peopl…

I think everyone has those thoughts to a certain degree: however I'm not dismissing yours as common or trying to minimize them in any way.

You might enjoy this stack-exchange article on Robert A. Heinlien's "They" - http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49224/short-story-w...

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