Thats a description of this new App called Watching Cute Girl made by a Japanese joke company called Ningen Inc. This app features a Japanese girl looking over you, paying you company and saying encouraging things to you every so often. She takes pictures of you and shows them to you, but you can be assured that the photos won’t end up on Facebook. The app is subject to Japanese males (the whole thing is in Japanese), and though it is more innocent than sexual, it is clear that it is trying to appeal to a particular gender.

It is kind of ironic though, that Japanese and Korean people are heavily addicted to their technology and through the Frontline episode we watched in class, I kind of got the impression that the Internet takes time out of potential relationships. I’m wondering if this kind of App would be successful in America, because I do believe that it is becoming harder to maintain relationships that aren’t virtual, since we are so encompassed in our on-line realm. And to desire somebody by your side, for the intimacy, is a basic human nature.