is this satire?
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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