Comments on: New service creates fake girlfriend to post on your Facebook wall http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/ Musing & misadventures of a writer, comedian, and local treasure Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:00 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Kevin Marshall http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6916 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:52:27 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6916 A. – Popular rumor, but no, she’s not.

]]> By: A. http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6915 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:29:04 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6915 She’s your girlfriend? I’m pretty sure she’s a lesbian.

]]> By: GiGi http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6914 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:43:45 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6914 And hopefully you’re doing so well in the girlfriend department Kevin that you’ll never have to consider something like this! :)

]]> By: GiGi http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6913 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:43:05 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6913 That would be soooo DESPERATE!

]]> By: Hal Jordan http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6912 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:12:05 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6912 Does she come complete with a fake restraining order for when things get “too real”?

]]> By: Ron http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6911 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:04:49 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6911 Hey, that’s a picture of MY girlfriend!

]]> By: Tom Haverford http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6910 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:01:32 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6910 Why don’t you just get a fake/secondary email and create your own fake girlfriend if you’re that desperate.. or maybe you should just talk to girls and get a girlfriend.. amirite?.. wait, that would be more work (and you’d actually have to talk to a girl).. nevermind

]]> By: Charlie Vella http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6909 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:21:30 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6909 “or Xanga (if you and your friends are total losers)” hahah, what about LiveJournal?

]]> By: Uebermensch http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/30/new-service-creates-fake-girlfriend-to-post-on-your-facebook-wall/#comment-6908 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:17:24 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4709#comment-6908 Hm.

Two terms that should probably come into the lexicon now, particularly in the science of psycholinguistics:

Search engine riddler: Someone who tries to write “messages” about thoughts or emotions by posting Google News (or Yahoo or other search engine) articles associated with simple phrases (usually 1-3 words) that run through their head, such as “fake girlfriend.”

Search engine Rorschach: The conscious use of the search engine riddling to try and understand the psychology of people around them.

BTW, these tools are old hat to actual programmers. They’re called “Pandorabots,” and their genetically related to spambots. ALICE is a Pandorabot, for example: http://alicebot.blogspot.com/ .

The service is just exploiting shareware and minimally licensed Pandorabot tech.

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