Imagine getting a string of texts from your friends about your ex and how hes been tagged by the paparazzi as Lady Gagas new mystery man.

It happened to a senior staff editor for the New York Times Opinion section, Lindsay Crouse, and she unpacked how it made her reevaluate life, celebrity and social media in an article for the Times.

In the piece, Crouse relates the wild story from the moment she discovered that the man shed dated for seven years was now seeing the world-famous, Grammy winner, highlighting how the strange turn of events had prompted positive change in her own life.

I was eating bodega grapes at my desk on a recent Monday morning, gearing up to wrangle my inbox, when my phone started buzzing: Check Facebook . Check Twitter. Are you OK? Crouse begins in the hilarious piece.

It was an emergency: My ex-boyfriend, I learned, had a new girlfriend.