Cloud Girlfriend, a new social network date service, has been launched, according to TechCrunch

David Fuhriman, founder of Cloud Girlfriend said, “The new Cloud Girlfriends lets you flirt as a fantasy character setting up Chat Dates with others who also are role playing. We allow people to define their ideal self, find their perfect girlfriend or boyfriend and connect and interact as if that person existed. It can help in learning how to manage a real relationship, and they then take it into the real world.”

The service uses Facebook Connect to verify the gender and language of its role players which will not work as other date website were profiles and accounts are fake.

Fuhriman thinks that people will eventually choose to interact as themselves with their Cloud Partners and eventually reveal themselves through their actual social profiles.

Fuhriman plans on monetizing the site by selling virtual goods, users can send each other - Cloud Flowers, Cloud Diamonds or go on a Cloud Vacation.