Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 01, 2021

You can always spend the day offline and drinking.

Having a flip phone [smug expression], I always leave the Internet at home.

Some places on the Internet are very nice. Like here.

Who says you have to look at all those mean comments on “Pearls Before—” oh wait.

Rat is an astute social commentator. I commented before, the internet and social media are like the new Tower of Babel. Communication and information are wonderful and exploitable. Here’s hoping we all have a better day today!

Has anyone here seen the documentary “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix? A real eye-opener.

Have a lovely Monday everyone.

The internet is kind of like the Force – there is a Light (Good) Side – but it is easy to be drawn (tempted over) to the Dark Side.

Rat is making sense again!

The internet is unchecked, as too much stuff out there is not factual! Sort of like an electronic" Weekly World News"! I remember one article “WWII bomber found on the Moon”!

Treat the Internet like any big library : know the trustworthy sources, verify anything suspicious, and ignore the dishevelled guys grumbling in a corner …

And you know who controls the internet these days…

Rat if you just use the phone to talk it will not become a portal to darkness ;-) … Croc POwer !

The New Samsung Galaxy Darkness Portal…marketing genius. (and potentially frighteningly true.)

Depends. There’s grandpa’s evening knitting group……and the PvP gamer server forums.Really, the things the old geezers write…

Oh, come on. Everyone checks their E-mail before they have their coffee, and while they’re online, they figure they might as well check out… um, pretty much everything.

Love traipsing thru the net and doing weird stuff like stating FACTS!! Doesn’t help a lot, but I do it anyway.

I check my e-mail when drinking my morning coffee, then read my comics here, and then I go for a walk with my dog after breakfast. At that point, I’m pretty much done with the internet for the day and only have to decide what time to pop open that first beer of the day…..and trust me, it doesn’t have to be after noon!

This is an absolutely clear vision of my current situation. It seems the anonymity of the internet has empowered everyone to disclose everything, and stuff that should be internal gets out there in the name of honesty. TMI.

Pretty accurate.

It is with these portals of darkness that we view these comics of darkness.

You can get online and go straight to the comics like I do. I never even go to any “news” pages. I am happy in my oblivion.

I’m not an alcoholic, I’m not a drug user, but oh Lord help me for I am an internet user.

Stay off social media sites will benefit your mind! Period!

Get information from proper news sites (the ones that get sued for liable if they get it wrong), get laughs from GoComics, get off social media for peace of mind.

I stick to real news sites: BBC, UK Guardian, Mayoclinic, AP, etc.

Rat nailed it.

Every day is a new day. I Spent the last week doing some work around the house. Didn’t get all of it done, but got about 80% of it knocked out. When I engage my mind, and do something useful, I feel a lot better mentally. I put some good music on, and off I go. Today, it’s back to work.

The web is always full of people overreacting.

no phone, no wrries.

Social Media has never been social.

Rat nailed it

Not if you’re reading GoComics.com!

…and a total frontal lobotomy.

The real truth has finally been exposed…….

I find tv news more troubling than Facebook. Hard to watch anymore. Of course I have some control over what I see on Facebook. Snooze is a good option. Another tip: go “window” shopping on the internet for something benign, like pots and pans or couches and you can influence the ads you see on Facebook. I am proudly ignorant of instagram and twitter. I have one person on instagram so I can see family pictures.

actually, they’re pocket computers, but don’t tell anyone

That’s why I love my flip-phone: it’s just a phone. Well, that and a very bad camera! :D

It’s all in how you’re managing your time on your phone

Does get tiresome at times. SSDD!

Pretty sure the “Tower of Babel” biblical story was predicting the internet!

SO THAT’S MY PROBLEM!

aka Portland. still want to keep it weird?

Not unlike some GoComics comment threads …

Pastis nailed it again. This (GoComics) is where I go for clever, fun comments. You guys are really great. Most other site’s Comment sections are just political platforms for people’s too-often-ludicrous or aggressive opinions.

Pig and I share the same dilemma.

“They’re called phones but they are really just portals into darkness” … that seems like a line that Charles Stross would use in his Laundry Files novels.

Here’s a thought; use them as a damned PHONE, and nothing else!

Remember piggies! Use it don’t abuse it.

The internet is a happy place now. No one is preaching for trump anymore

That is exactly why I deleted my FB account. Haven’t deleted my Twitter account yet, but I haven’t looked at it for months.

Read a book, watch game shows, do crossword puzzles…the list of things to do goes on and on.

My flip phone is a portal to ridicule. I was once accused of googling answers at a Trivia event. I displayed my phone to the assembled multitude – and when the laughter ended, they offered to buy me a”real phone”. I demurred. My friends and family have goaded me for years, but I’m writing this on my iPad. lol

More coffee! Fewer smartphones! STAT!

You have your orders for Saving Civilization As We Know It!

Killfiles work wonders.

Pastis nails it again. I wish I could upvote this comic about a dozen times.

Internet sites don’t visit YOU; you have to visit THEM. It’s easy to avoid the bad stuff.

I’ve never felt so read by a comic before!

See, I don’t have the internet on my phone. It is essentially a dumb smart phone that I can live without.

I must be the only person that actually likes the internet and social media. I admit not all of it is enjoyable, but then, is anything ever 100% desirable?