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Is Facebook Making Us All Into Love Liars?

Usually we assume that made up girlfriends are the stuff of junior high dances and middle school humiliations. We see them on television shows like the The Brady Bunch, but rarely do we assume that in real life, actual adult people would do something so incredibly lame.

Turns out, we were all assuming wrong. Real life people do make up significant others, and when they’re found out, they usually just act like giant losers. Peter Coffin is a wannabe comedian who is, sadly, just not very funny. he puts his stuff on Twitter and YouTube and kind of makes a fool of himself. Of course, if you think Kim Kardashian butt jokes are HILARIOUS, then maybe you would like him.

A few weeks ago, he got into a Twitter fight with Xiaxue, a writer and blogger from Singapore who happens to have a love of plastic surgery, and boy did she get him back. for 8 months he had been carrying on in a Twitter relationship with “Kimi Kobayashi,” a drop-dead gorgeous Japanese girl who seemed to have exactly the same sense of humor as Coffin. this is because she was Coffin.

Lame-o city, dude! They had conversations back and forth. he made racist jokes about Asians, which at the time seemed OK because she was Asian. Well guess what? They aren’t so funny when you’ve been talking to yourself all this time. this gives new meaning to the phrase, “he’s having a meaningful relationship with his right hand.”

It’s one thing if you’re Jan Brady and you’re 10. but this guy is about THIRTY and it isn’t really all that cool anymore. come to think of it, it may never have been cool to begin with. You really have to read the whole story on the blog to believe it.

It does bring up an interesting question, though: does social media make us lie about our relationship status? There is a lot of pressure to be happily coupled on Facebook and on Twitter. It isn’t just to avoid being hit on (though that is part of it), but there is a sadness and an envy that can pervade online interactions when you see so many happy couples and you’re single.

This is no joke. Facebook app developers have invented the new “cloud girlfriend” who will post sweet nothings on your Facebook page and make you look really hot. Maybe it will make some ex-girlfriend jealous, but in the end, you just look pathetic if you need such a thing.

Technology and social interaction via networking sites may make it possible to create the lives we want for ourselves, but do we really want to be living fake lives?

I think not.

Do you find this as bizarre as I do?

Image via YouTube

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Peter Coffin and Xiaxue…

must be the funniest fake girlfriend story I have ever heard. It’s interesting how you can read all the authentic material from Xiaxue’s blog but everyone chooses to rely on internet newspapers and wiki instead -.-

Misconceptions of the gossip mill churned out from online newspapers and personalities that claim to be “unbiased unlike Xiaxue” (pfft) and written with integrity:

1) Xiaxue is not a model, her main job is being Xiaxue.

2) She does not ONLY blog about plastic surgery. She only has a few of those compared to the many posts she has posted over the past few years.

3) Peter coffin is mildly popular (200,000 subscribers? For a youtuber, it is not that much….famous youtubers have a million of those). Xiaxue is THE most famous blogger in Singapore. She has an average of 170,000 visits a day.

4) Kimi Kobayashi is NOT a Korean actress. Lee Na Young the Korean actress is what you get when you search Lee Na Young on Google. clearly the newspapers were too lazy to bother about Asians having the same names. She is an Ulzzang/ Pretty face. you cannot even find her unless you search in Korean or Japanese. just to compare internet popularity: to be a Korean Ulzzang you need 10k-20k visits on your blog per day, Xiaxue’s blog is mega popular compared to that.

5) Xiaxue is not trying to be Hilton, she mentioned before that she was following the Jap style…except not so crazy.

6) @sxephil, your I don’t understand how you can pronounce Xiaxue as xzai zoo.

7) LOL I read some article that tried to create a meaningful observation from this trivial fiasco. it said that this started from the issue of Xiaxue’s fake nose and blew into the exposure of his fake girlfriend and is ultimately about 2 fake internet personalities fighting. The reporter then started to think deep about this internet issue of fake identity. ROFLOL Xiaxue and Peter Coffin are real you idiot. They are acting as themselves, online, bearing their faces.

8 ) Is she Kimi Kobayashi, Kimiko Kobayashi or Kim Kobayashi? not important but whatever… nobody even remembers the fake name. LOL One of them even used “Kim” as a surname. as in trying to be formal by saying “Coffin created Kim”…except Kim is not her name and even if it was, you should use Kobayashi as her surname.

9) Coffin had a fake girlfriend for over a year, not 8 months.

10) He did not even write that “lawyer’s letter”. He is not that smart. He copied it from somewhere and changed the details to fit his situation. which explains the awkward phrasing sometimes and the lack of ability to spell despite the formal tone he was “able” to adopt.

Will update when I find new dumbasses trying to retell a story that could be easily found on Xiaxue’s blog. Yes, this story is so amusing, I can read it 100 times from different sources. It’s just fun to see how gossip develops and mutates yknow?

Peter Coffin and Xiaxue…