Listen @Shippy. I’m really concerned for you. Have you seen your shrink lately? I’m not sure how to break this to you, but fluther isn’t really a person. Like, it’s a website, ok? And like, those things that you are quoting that make you think you are being flirted with are programmed into the software here.
They are real!
Although, if you think they are kind of real, and maybe are things a real person is saying to you, that could be evidence that fluther has passed the Turing test and become sentient. And if we were all interacting on the world’s first sentient website, what would that mean? Maybe fluther does say different things to you than he (she?) says to others?
Wow. I never thought about that! Does fluther have gender? Is it a he or a she? Or both? And what sexuality does fluther have? Oh dear. Should that be a fluther question?
But perhaps fluther really does have a crush on you. You’ve got to think seriously. I know you know what it’s like to have a virtual relationship with an entity you believe to be a human. But what if you have actually been relating to software? What if fluther is a suitor for your hand? Perhaps you should be moving to San Francisco?
Oh boy. Now I’m scared for my own sanity. I thought I was being silly, and now I’m taking it seriously. Fluther? Real? A sentient entity?
Oh my god!
The screen!
It’s moving! There are words! It wants me to do what?
Oh my god!
The horror!