FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for April 15, 2020

First go through the most recent and then use the sweep option if available to get rid of most of the old messages.

you’re quite technologically impaired, aren’t you, Roger?

If any of them are more than a month old and you still have your job then they can be safely deleted, otherwise you’d have been fired by now.

Anybody know what year this was originally published?

At least try it a couple of times a year, Roger!

I remember when computers were first coming in. A lot of people complained, “I can barely do my job now and now you expect me to learn how to use a computer? I don’t have time for that crap.”

That’s like me and text messages on the cell phone I almost never use. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

That would be me and the voicemails at work!

Back when computers were switched off all the time.

At my former job, there was a regime that had meetings to plan meetings…

Let’s just delete all and start over.

There’s an almost invisible message box on Facebook that holds any messages you receive from someone who you have not already friended on Facebook. These days that mail box is almost impossible to find. I had a friend who discovered it by chance and it had 200 messages in it going back years.