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9:46AM Jess McGuire | At the beginning of the week, I was shocked and appalled by an article I’d read in The Guardian titled ‘He two-timed me on Facebook. But our divorce will be for real’. I couldn’t work out if it was simply a horribly written piece about horrible people or if it was satire, and asked “Is this an amazing example of over-sharing via newspaper? Is Georgina a comic genius? Should I cry a little for the state of mankind?”
Thankfully someone over in the UK has gotten in contact with me and filled in the blanks a little. Now, providing what they have told me is true, I can cease weeping for my fellow humans… at least until Metro Station have another hit.
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From The ‘Were We Lied To?’ Files | Facebook May Not Be Responsible For That Divorce After All
9:46AM Jess McGuire | At the beginning of the week, I was shocked and appalled by an article I’d read in The Guardian titled ‘He two-timed me on Facebook. But our divorce will be for real’. I couldn’t work out if it was simply a horribly written piece about horrible people or if it was satire, and asked “Is this an amazing example of over-sharing via newspaper? Is Georgina a comic genius? Should I cry a little for the state of mankind?”
Thankfully someone over in the UK has gotten in contact with me and filled in the blanks a little. Now, providing what they have told me is true, I can cease weeping for my fellow humans… at least until Metro Station have another hit.
Here’s what they told me about the writer and her ex: More » 
Flotsam & Jetsam
12:28PM Jess McGuire | These days I find it quite hard to work out whether certain things I read on the internet are pisstakes or not. For instance, it took me longer than I care to share to conclude that Shane Skillz is most definitely taking the mickey, and I am still completely unsure as to whether Georgina Hobbs-Meyer, writing a piece in The Guardian about her husband’s cyber cheating on Facebook, has a wicked sense of humour, or whether she is simply incredibly tedious. I mean, really – WTF? My bullshit-dar used to be incredibly powerful. But the internet has made things confusing for me.
In the case of Georgina Hobbs-Meyer, please help me decide. IS THIS SATIRE?
My mother emailed me last week to tell me she had joined Facebook. We don’t chat on the phone; we email. Soon I expect she will want to poke me, write on my wall and, worse still, tag me in photographs of my wedding last May. Well, not if I can help it, mama. I love you too much to expose you to my online self.
You see, she doesn’t yet know that I, her 24-year-old daughter, am about to divorce. She can’t see my Facebook status, so why would she?
But of course. Of course you’d update your Facebook status to reflect your current marital woes before you’d confide in your parents. Do go on, Georgina.
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From The ‘Is This Satire?’ Files | Facebook Leads To Divorce, Excruciatingly Rubbish Articles In The Guardian
12:28PM Jess McGuire | These days I find it quite hard to work out whether certain things I read on the internet are pisstakes or not. For instance, it took me longer than I care to share to conclude that Shane Skillz is most definitely taking the mickey, and I am still completely unsure as to whether Georgina Hobbs-Meyer, writing a piece in The Guardian about her husband’s cyber cheating on Facebook, has a wicked sense of humour, or whether she is simply incredibly tedious. I mean, really – WTF? My bullshit-dar used to be incredibly powerful. But the internet has made things confusing for me.
In the case of Georgina Hobbs-Meyer, please help me decide. IS THIS SATIRE?
My mother emailed me last week to tell me she had joined Facebook. We don’t chat on the phone; we email. Soon I expect she will want to poke me, write on my wall and, worse still, tag me in photographs of my wedding last May. Well, not if I can help it, mama. I love you too much to expose you to my online self.
You see, she doesn’t yet know that I, her 24-year-old daughter, am about to divorce. She can’t see my Facebook status, so why would she?
But of course. Of course you’d update your Facebook status to reflect your current marital woes before you’d confide in your parents. Do go on, Georgina.
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