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The Straight Story

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Thu Feb 14, 2013, 11:57 AM Feb 2013

Now you can rent girlfriends/boyfriends on FB to improve your image [View all]

Twenty-four-year-old Sophia is smart, pretty and has hopes and dreams of getting to grad school.

And for $5 she will be your girlfriend.

"It's not a big deal really," she says, at the end of what has been an altogether very peculiar week.

"It's just easy to do... I just tick 'in a relationship'."

Sophia is one of many women - and a few men - who have essentially brought the age-old industry of escorting to the world of social networking.

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Now, instead of hiring someone to grasp your arm and go out to a party or dinner - it's all about looking good online.

"It's mostly guys trying to make someone else jealous," Sophia explains. "Or to make their profile look like they've got girls all over them."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21446368

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