Google-Journalism At Its Best

Gotta love it when young cadet journos get the greenlight to do a Page 7 story on something, like, totally Gen-Y.

When Adriana Saw broke up with her Sydneysider boyfriend of 11 months, she decided to get back at him – and his city.

The 23-year-old took her modern day revenge and started a “Melbourne is better than Sydney” group on social networking website Facebook.

Started as an in-joke between her friends, word of mouth and Facebook’s booming popularity has seen the group swell to more than 6000 members in four months.

Oh god, like, that’s like, totally not a news story, but clearly NEWS.com.au is desperate for traffic and will resort to anything to get more office drones commenting on its articles. And what better way to send the server into meltdown that by trotting out the old “Melbourne V Sydney” chestnut.

Incidentally, other Facebook groups we love are “If You Can’t Differentiate Between ‘Your’ and ‘You’re’ You Deserve To Die” and “The Daily Telegraph is Only Good for Wiping One’s Arse When There’s No Toilet Paper” *

(* We just made that one up, but if someone wants to create it, we will totally join!)