New Invisible Girlfriend app sends texts and lavish gifts to lonely guys

Many singletons fear family gatherings for the barrage of questions about one’s marital status. Now, one app hopes to put an end to that – for afflicted men, at least.For membership fees of up to $49.99, Invisible girlfriend allows the user to virtually fake the presence of a girlfriend.The app provides members with fake calls, texts, and even relationship statuses on Facebook.The app, which has not yet launched to the public, says it will offer three levels of membership that are based on the three degrees of seriousness that users may want their fake relationships to convey.For $9.99 per month, for example, the ‘Just Talking’ membership offers interactive texts, automated phone calls, simple gifts (available for an additional fee), and an emergency interaction button.Invisible Girlfriend’s ‘Getting Serious’ dues, at $29.99 per month, offer users all of the benefits of ‘Just Talking’, and more.Subscribers will be able to post a fake relationship to their Facebook profile, receive real voicemails, random gifts and notes, and have the option to send themselves ‘premium gifts.’And most serious, the ‘Almost Engaged’ membership, gives users all of the ‘Getting Serious’ perks, plus custom girlfriend characterization, the ability to create your own story, as well as live phone calls all for  $49.99 per month.Since the app is still in its beta phase, Invisible Girlfriend’s founder Matt Homann says he is still figuring out if live actors or computer-generated voicemails will be tasked with calling the platform’s subscribers.‘We're not trying to build a girlfriend they can believe in -- that's a whole other level of technology,’ Homann told the Riverfront Times. ‘We're giving them a better story to tell, even if the story isn't true.’Homann says that he bought the domain rights for Invisiblegirlfriend.com over three years ago, and only pitched the idea for an app as a joke.But the idea was anything but. He quickly assembled a staff and seed money to help fund the project.He is currently working on Invisible Boyfriend as well, and says that both sites will be LGBT-friendly.‘Our audience might come from a variety of situations: maybe they’re in a same-sex relationship they’re hiding from disapproving relatives, are trying to avoid the unwelcome advances from a coworker, or have chosen to focus on their work instead of romance,’ he told BuzzFeed.(dailymail.co.uk)ANN.Az