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Male and single? Get a Cloud Girlfriend


By Alexander Villafania, loQal.ph
For Yahoo! Southeast Asia

MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA — Facebook is the new courtship platform and what drives attention to a person's account is the number of people of the opposite sex who post messages on his or her "wall."

So, what if a guy doesn't have a girlfriend who posts romantic messages on his Facebook wall? Enter the Cloud Girlfriend, a site that aims to create the perfect "social network" girlfriend.

The idea seems to stem from the idea that everything is in the "cloud," a generally accepted reference to the Internet.

The site does not say much except ambiguous concepts of creating the perfect girlfriend and bringing her to existence. The site adds that those who have made their cloud girlfriend can connect and interact with these virtual partners publicly, even in a long distance relationship.

The site doesn't say yet when the service would be available except "soon." The creators said in their Twitter account that they are creating something really awesome.

While there are no explanations as to how the Cloud Girlfriend would work, it might employ the use of bots — automated applications that run depending on certain online actions. Most bots are simple though others become more complex as resulting actions are added.

Not surprisingly, a lot of these bots are actually illegal, if not downright malicious. Bots could be used to automate Internet attacks from infected PCs.

Of course, Cloud Girlfriend does not seem to delve into such illegal activities. However, the lack of information puts into question if Cloud Girlfriend is legitimate or otherwise.

Nevertheless, the site is already enjoying some traffic from potential markets (about 1,700 on its Twitter site), many of whom are awaiting its official launch, in the hopes of finally creating the perfect girlfriend.

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