Comments on: Your virtual girlfriend

By: sieber

sieber — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 03:20:48 +0000

Point well taken. We forget that sometimes.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 03:09:35 +0000

You know there are some people out here in the world who are inable to interact with others not because they don’t want to, but because of how they look, what kind of person they are, or how they were raised. Most of the people who rant against people becomeing more and more socially inept due to technology haven’t had a lot of trouble getting dates. It’s one thing to talk about the bad side of a virtual friend when you already have one of your own, but when people don’t like you and you’ve spent twenty years or so being rejected and ignored by members of both sexes, the idea of something that will fill the need for social interaction without ever careing that you’re shy or stupid or overweight becomes a very appealing one. For every smart and beautiful woman out there who thinks a virtual girlfrined is stupid there are a dozen quiet, ugly, geeky guys, who she would probably never talk to, who will end up buying a virtual girlfriend for their cell phone, just to feel less alone.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 04:58:59 +0000

This is absurd! As if we need anything else to INCREASE the number of hours that people are dependent on technology for. Our society is becoming less and less “good at” inter-personal relationships – people don’t know how to act in a face to face setting, they are used to computers as go-betweens. having “Vivienne” around may serve only to increase this problem. what happens when a real-life girlfriend becomes “not as good as” Vivienne, or when people decide that Vivienne is all they need and opt out of relationships with living humans… maybe this is technology’s attempt at population control… at least until they figure out a way for Vivienne to have children… Whoa- here’s a crazy thought: will virtual people one day count in the world population total?