Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 24, 2013
Transcript:
Kate: The twittersphere is in full panic mode over Danae being offline for so long, Daddy... Joe: So? Kate: So... her followers are convinced that the only logical explanation she'd stop tweeting for more than an hour is that she's hopelessly lost somewhere in the wilderness. They're trying to organize a search party, but having trouble getting volunteers. Joe: Afraid of venturing out of service range? Kate: That, and finding any twitter-heads who still have the ability to walk more than 50 yards without collapsing.
pawpawbear over 11 years ago
Happy to see this back. My two granddaughters, eleven and thirteen, epitomize the “text generation.” I love them very much. But, I think they are going to have a hard time when they get to the real world. Having said that, I look around and see a much more casual workplace than when I was fresh out in the world. Perhaps, their ways will precede them and be waiting for them. I hope I live long enough to marvel and grouse at their work world.
jack fairbanks over 11 years ago
obese still my heart
wrwallaceii over 11 years ago
Oooh, wait a minute I gotta tweet that…
jreckard over 11 years ago
Thanks for the link. How true.
jnik23260 over 11 years ago
Apparently Dad doesn’t. He can’t get his butt off the chair and put the paper down long enough to look for his own daughter.
Reppr Premium Member over 11 years ago
This is not the first use of Twitterhead. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Twitter%20Head
Douglas Hakey over 11 years ago
That’s one excuse for being fat that I can’t use .Both my friends know I hate and do not use any kind of social media, and wouldn’t if you paid me.( anything less than7 figures.)
dsom8 over 11 years ago
We who spend time commenting on the comics should be careful about how we criticize the twittering class. An old saw about glass houses and stones certainly comes to mind. ;)
dabugger over 11 years ago
Well, that certainly is no tweet…..da bird done flown….??
Absalom57 over 11 years ago
Twitiots can walk fine. It’s the avoiding cars while walking and tweeting on busy downtown streets that’s the problem.
Linguist over 11 years ago
I think people who follow tweets have adopted an attitude of " We’re interested in what you do, as long as, we don’t have to do anything about it. !"
susan.e.a.c over 11 years ago
Hooray!
Ernest Lemmingway over 11 years ago
ROFLMAO!! Isn’t that the truth? Twitter-Heads are too afraid of leaving service range, much less able to walk fifty yards after spending so long at their computers their legs atrophy. But on a more serious note that’s far truer than this satire would have us believe. Not unlike cases of people dying of deprivation from playing MMOs nonstop for days on end. Oh well, Darwinism adapted (hah!) to the cyber age.
Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago
Oh they can cover 50 yards. Even cross the freeway without getting hit. Even drive. Their worst nightmare………Having nothing to say or “tweet”.
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
It is interesting how often today “city folk” depending on their cell coverage get lost, or break down, out in the boondocks, and die, because they aren’t smart enough to realize they’re going out beyond the reach of “civilization” to come to their rescue. Not quite “Darwin Award” time, but often very close.
ChessPirate over 11 years ago
I knew a guy whose whole universe was computers and the Internet, but he was quite witty about it. He told us that not only did he not need utility heating in the winter due to all the running computers and devices in his apartment, but he actually had to open the window as well! When he was advised to go outside and enjoy the summer, he said he was allergic to sunlight. When he complained of constantly running out of disk space, I suggested deleting some stuff. He said “I am unfamiliar with this concept of ‘delete’.”
Wiley creator over 11 years ago
This is very interesting. Over 30 comments so far, and not one in defense of Twitter. Obviously, Twitter is very popular, with tens of millions of users, yet all we’ve seen here is how hated it is. No, I am not on Twitter (or Facebook), nor do I intend to ever waste my precious time with it, but I’m a bit surprised no one has refuted any of the comments here today, many of which are quite vitriolic about Twitter and those who use it. Maybe they’re all too busy tweeting every 10 seconds.
Proginoskes over 11 years ago
50 yards … Isn’t that about 140 steps?
pcolli over 11 years ago
Didn’t our parents have similar things to say about us?
Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago
Wiley, at least it did not go political.
ishannon5289 over 11 years ago
These are the people for which I wish to coin the term twit-wit
dsom8 over 11 years ago
You think so?
pbarnrob over 11 years ago
If, and I emphasize IF, Twitter survives (as noted, some of its users do not), it might be interesting to see how our communications overall are affected by its 140-character limit.
I have been seeing some interesting haiku around here lately.