(Potentially NSFW) What would lead you to pursue or pay for an artificial relationship?

I was dilly-dallying around on the internet earlier today when I stumbled upon this interesting website. Apparently, you can custom order a pretend girlfriend who will interact with you on Facebook, or whatever the social media network of your choice is.

This got me thinking… We live in a world that is smaller than ever, in terms of the speed of travel and communication. Access to other human beings is literally right at most of our fingertips, and yet people are apparently feeling lonelier than ever.

Why do you think that is and what does it say about modern society? What would lead you to pay for a fake boyfriend or girlfriend? Is the cliche’ true in that technology that was meant to bring us together has now torn us all apart and started to serve as a substitute for human contact? Is any of this crap even a bad thing, necessarily?