Jennifer Morrison worked as a receptionist at a restaurant in Las Vegas, but it also has a parallel life: accepts cash to take a visitor to know the Hall of Fame Pinball and dancing water fountains of the Bellagio casino.
Morrison, 31, also led to the cinema to a grandmother who was bored during a visit to her family and her company to a housewife who just moved to the city while arming a scrapbook.
The woman is a face to a new fashion, for rent all over the Internet, including friends, usually available on the site Rentafriend.com.
"You see a place like this and think: 'Ah, to be companions or is a dating site or something," said Morrison, mother of a toddler, who enrolled after talking with her husband. "When I first saw it, I had mixed feelings, I thought it was a bit sad that people had to do something."
Morrison thinks differently now. Cobra 20 to $ 30 per hour and also meet people. The site is inspired by other similar and highly successful in Japan and other Asian countries.
In a world where many people never meet their "friends" on Facebook and where loneliness can cause chronic health problems and even suicide, observers do not know if this is a solution or just a temporary fix.
"The question is: do you solve the problems anyone? My first reaction was to her eyes, but I think it actually can help to meet people and put back into service, but if used as replacement of deep relationships face to face, not going to work, "said researcher John T. neurological Cacioppo, who is investigating the solitude.
Rentafriend has 100,000 unique visitors per month and about 2,000 members who pay $ 24.95 monthly or annual 69.95 to see the profiles and photos of some 167,000 "friends" potential.
Christopher Barton, 31, a resident of Boulder City, Nevada, first tested the service about six months ago during a business trip. Barton spends more than a week away from home for months and he hates to eat alone in restaurants, and not to use their free time.
"I'm in different cities all the time," he said. With the service, "one has in a way a tourist guide."
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