Well....help is on the way....


"" (CNN)— Are you lonely? Bored? Trying to
deflect questions about that special someone
from Mom, Dad or your friends because
there's nobody romantic in your life?
Maybe you need an Invisible Boyfriend.
Yes, the Internet has a solution for
everything, and Invisible Boyfriend (or
Girlfriend, they're not fussy) can take care of
those pesky privacy-invading questions by
supplying an actual person to call you, text
you and leave you messages. They'll even
send you handwritten notes.
Why, that's sometimes better than an Actual
Boyfriend!
Matthew Homann, who describes himself as a
"recovering lawyer" with "idea surplus
disorder," came up with the idea several years
ago after a divorce and bought the domain
InvisibleGirlfriend.com for $7. He filed it away
until late 2013, when he pitched it to a St.
Louis hackathon. A long weekend later, he
and his team won the contest.
That probably would have been it except for
BuzzFeed, which picked up the story from a
local alternative newspaper. Suddenly
Homann -- who already had a full-time job
running his company, an innovation-strategy
firm called Kendeo -- realized that, thanks to
the attention, Invisible Boyfriend had better
be good.
The result is a web service, launching in beta
this week, that allows you to invent your
potential partner.
For $24.99 a month (for starters, which
includes 100 text messages, voicemail and
handwritten notes), you get to make up a
story about how you met (the homepage
includes a nice Mad Libs-style paragraph)
and pick out an image, name, age and
interests.
Who's at the other end? Though Homann
says some of that information is proprietary,
he'll allow that the St. Louis-based company
has partnered with a service that has real
people responding to your messages. (Yes,
they've been trained, so watch your
language.)
"There has grown this amazing multinational
workforce of people willing to do microtasks
for a very small amount of money," he says.
Not even he knows where they're all located,
but he expects that the work will be scalable
with demand. A Business Insider writer
observed that her Invisible Boyfriend came
from the city she requested, based on area
code, and she praised the "attention to
detail."
Eventually, Invisible Boyfriend expects to offer
gifts sent to you at work and other real-life
services, says Homann. Not even Pygmalion
had it so good.
Ideas like Invisible Boyfriend have been
fodder for generations of stories, of course.
Think of "Cyrano de Bergerac," who supplies
poetry to the lunkheaded Christian to woo
Roxane; or the movie "Her," in which Joaquin
Phoenix's sad sack falls in love with a
computer operating system.
What lonely person wouldn't like someone
understanding to talk to, even if just through
a device?
Homann admits he's thought about it.
"There's a very real possibility that people
might grow attached, though that's not what
we're trying to go for here," he says.
But he believes his service can be useful to
build customers' confidence.
"We had a user who was at dinner on a date.
His text message went off, he texted her back,
and all of a sudden the woman across the
table from him asked who it was," he says.
The real-life date, he says, wasn't upset at
all, but became more intrigued.
"What we're seeing is potential user cases are
all over the board," Homann says. "It's not
just, I want to convince my parents I'm in a
relationship.""
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The next new term will be my invisible boyfriend made me do it instead of going postal ..lol

@WalkSoftly: lol! I couldn't care less who knows I'm single, otherwise I wouldn't be on here...what a great way to make money though!

Is there a service to rent, a real guy for a week? Preferably a mute.. Or I could pay extra for him not to speak...

*today this would be a good idea*

Lol

Of course....a gigolo


Gigolo and blow! HAAHAAHahahahaahhaa!!!

Thanks...
But they will be no blow or talking.. ..lmao

@SammyToo: Whats sad is that there will be someone using this lol. Did ya see the part where you will be able to get the fake bf or gf to send you a gift....that you hafta pay for beforehand? lmao!