Need a friend? Instead of wasting time trying to meet someone the old-fashioned way, why not just pay someone to spend time with you? I stumbled across this website, maybe you've heard of it, RentAFriend.com. RentAFriend.com is a website that allows you to rent, or should we say hire, local friends from all over the US and Canada with prices ranging from $10 to $150. You can rent a local Friend to hang out with, go to a movie or restaurant with, someone to go with you to a party or event, someone to teach you a new skill or hobby, or someone to show you around an unfamiliar town.
I was amazed to find out that this site has been around for about six months and already has 200,000 members.
It's not a dating or escort service. According to the web site's founder, he screens each potential member's information before it's made live on the website, and if anything is sexual or sketchy, he immediately bans them from the site.
Even though some of the suggestions for the site seem rather practical, many of them seem a bit like a crutch. Has social networking changed real-life interaction to the point where we need to pay someone to be a real-time friend? Is this the next step in social networking fads that continue to kill, you know, being social?
Check the website out for yourself: http://www.rentafriend.com/
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