We updated you on Monday night about Cloud Girlfriend, the service that promised you unlimited fake girlfriends who would interact with you across your social networks. What was originally supposed to be a way for men to bring their dream girlfriend to virtual life through interacting with an anonymous woman contracted (somehow) to say whatever you want her to say, the service is now a dating site hybrid, mixing Match.com with Second Life. Weird, I know.

Here’s what’s the same: your profiles are not real. You log in through Facebook Connect (to verify age, gender, language, etc.) and the first thing your are prompted to do is choose a profile picture – from a bunch of stock photos of really good-looking people. You are then presented with binary choices to quickly summarize your personality. Are you a book person or a movies person? Are you a steak or salad kind of gal? Would you rather spend Sunday at church or watching football? You then pick which traits you want in a fantasy mate.

Once you identified your ideal self based on these obviously opposite-spectrum personality signifiers (clearly Cloud Girlfriend’s founders have never heard of Steak Salad), you can then fill out a little fantasy bio about yourself, pick a fantasy name and Save. You will then be presented with your fantasy matches – or so that’s the theory. When I filled mine out, I just said my ideal boyfriend had to be smart. There were no matches found. I’m not impressed.

Here’s what’s different: you’ll be interacting with regular people just like yourself, who are just trying to score a date. The idea is that you create an ideal self, describe your ideal mate and then you are matched up with someone with similar ideals. You chat, interact and then have the option of keeping the relationship virtual or shedding the virtual veil and begin dating for real.

The only way I see that this differs from a dating site like OkCupid is that you are using a fake picture. If the site is supposed to, like co-founder David Fuhriman explains, build confidence so that people can practice communicating in a relationship, then why use a picture at all? Why not a cartoon? Or a color?

To further drive the Second Life aspect to this online dating experience home, Furhriman hopes to monetize by selling virtual goods like Cloud Flowers or Cloud Diamonds. Users could also purchase a composite picture of their avatar driving a Cloud Ferrari or a composite of themselves on a Cloud Vacation.

Interested in a Cloud Ferrari? Cloud Girlfriend sent us 500 invitations. While Cloud girlfriend is now open to the public, type in “scribbal” – all lowercase – when you’re asked for a code to unlock additional features. But like any good club, females get in code free. Happy sort-of-real dating!