Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 20, 2022

Why do they call it “social” media?

This makes it sound like the seven deadly sins

Go with Tumblr. It’s weird and no one can figure out how to make money off it.

“Social media” = “social disease.” Not appropriate for someone like Gram…

Some of us are old enough to remember when there was no “social media”.

You could try Truth Social, which launches tomorrow – Presidents Day!!

/SHNARK/

Depends on the “Group” you join – if you join a group ABOUT something – Like building a Cobra – then you get useful interactions – along with the odd idiot

Explains my pinned Tweet, eh? So do you know any ReaganRINOs?

Today’s fake Republicans want America to fail. Always campaigning for themselves, never governing for the people.Easiest campaign? Blame Democrats for failures caused by GOP obstructionism.

Over 2,000 unvaccinated #Covid19 deaths today.

Are you a #ReaganRINO?

Beyond texting friends, family and few businesses, the comment section here on GoComics is the extent of my social media.

But… but! He is holding a mirror up to US! To his followers! (please like my comment, I need the false buzz….) ’-)

I needed someone like Alex in my life so I didn’t learn the horrible truth for myself and mess up my mental health.

Social media just amplifies us. It can be good or bad, fair or unfair, useful or useless.

I don’t have anything to do with social media.

IMO, it’s ruined more lives than it’s worth!!

Ah, so that explains why Trump uses Twitter!!

Interesting to see how Joanie has aged (unlike most of the others on this strip).

Of course, with kids like JJ and Jeff, it’s understandable.

Facebook is for crafts and hobbies and family, Twitter is for news, graphs, and debate about economics, politics, philosophy, and epidemiology (lately). Both are for adorable animal videos. To me, social media is like the web itself: it contains everything, both good and bad. Yes, I know, social media have algorithms that push towards the bad, but somehow that hasn’t happened to me.

So Facebook is Anger, Instagram is Envy, Tiktok is Pride, Twitter is Avarice. I assume Onlyfans is Lust, so that just leaves Gluttony and Sloth to account for.

But what is the comments section of Doonesbury for?

I’ll never understand why people allow misinformation and follow strangers that post things they don’t like, I have over 200 friends on facebook the vast majority I don’t know, they belong to groups I’m in or friends of people I know, if they post something I don’t like ( I don’t do politics on facebook) I simply unfollow or unfriend them, it’s so easy, why people allow themselves to get sucked down the rabbit hole is beyond me.

The problem with looking for like minds to share thoughts with on “social media” is finding like minds that disagree with you.

I haven’t gotten into the misinformed and angry parts of Facebook, yet. So far, its just the medium I use on Sunday at 4PM for my worship service I conduct. I occasionally use it for connecting with friends, less so recently.

Just dawned on this old panda, Alex has grown into a women.

A good artist gives his players, enough depth and character, so they become real in the viewers mind.

All social media does is put you on Front Street where total strangers will throw mud at you in order to feel better about themselves which is a total disaster for anyone seeking approval.

What about You Tube. Isn’t that considered social media?

Don’t do it Gran. It will sicken your mind like everyone else

LOL – even my GOP wife was cracking up on this one, Garry!

Of course, you also get a boatload of disapproval from clueless strangers.

Social media would be awesome if it wasn’t for all those people mucking it up.

The internet was fun when it was basically USENET. Since then, they’ve been trying to monetize the experience, and that never leads anywhere good.

Calling it anti-social media would be too accurate.

Decided not to get on social media. My wife comes off like a school girl and over reacts to stuff she sees there.

With the exception of occasionally commenting here and there, I said “goodbye” to social-media some three or so years back with no regrets … :)

You forgot Reddit – a touchy group of power-hungry dingalings with a passion for over-moderating to the point of ridiculousness.

Twitter is NOT “for snark and self-promotion”…it is an eternal race to the cultural nadir…

The social medium I like most is the comment section of comic strips. People are at least expected to be literate.

Life was bad enough…

Being against social media is the newest WOKE cause.

You know…you DO get to pick who you friend or don’t friend on FB. Avoid any random “news” and go straight to your page and the pages of your actual friends. If any of your FB friends starts any stuff that really goes against your principles, ignore or unfriend them. I’ve found FB to be the best way to casually keep in touch with relatives and old friends. I still call and visit the people closest to me, but FB lets me easily keep up with a wider group of people. Social media woes are sometimes more about the individual than the media. I say all of this as someone who was born in the early ’60s, and I joined FB just 5 years ago.

Ah the ever popular “I’m not on social media that makes me better than you”.

Many years ago, I read that at least half of effective communication in face-to-face settings is non-verbal. That’s why TV was more effective than radio, and why commercials always show you smiling users with testimonials instead of (probably more informative) dull, dry facts and bar graphs. To the extent that social media take the visuals, facial expressions, vocal tones, and body language literally out of the picture, opportunities for misunderstanding are seriously higher.

Likewise, it’s way easier to degenerate into insults and putdowns if you’re not looking your victim right in the eye while you do it.

I haven’t removed myself from the F place, but I have been ignoring it and all the emails I still get, for almost a year now. I attribute that to my depression, but now I think it’s just good instincts. ;-)

OBTW, what ever happened to MySpace?

What is Alex’s career, now she has the PhD and the twins and Rosie? GT hasn’t drawn her in the trailer since she completed her doctorate.

Gotta’ love Alex, the smartest one in the strip.(yeah, I said it Kim lovers!) Does anyone remember when Alex lost her wide-eyed innocence and started to be drawn with the world-weary eyes of the rest of the adults? (Excepting dear Boopsie)

You forgot Tumblr, where you go to be outraged, self-righteous, and make a mountain out of a molehill.

joined FaceBook 2010. because I did I got to play an Amati and a Strad (Amati much better), got invited to play in a Russian music festival, met my co-producer/engineer who offers free studio/mixing, sold a bunch of merchandise, and met some ppl who became actual friends. that’s for starters. I know about the fucktons of catastrophically horrible aspects, but that’s no reason to deny the positive ones. oh, and my wife was able to contact the woman from India who had been her BF in high school, who she had feared been killed for political reasons.

How about Pinterest? Does it qualify as social media?

More like she doesn’t want Grandma seeing what a snark her granddaughter is

Grrrr. Just last night I was bumped from my work station to another group I’ve never worked with before. There the workers on either side of me were on their phone almost the whole time. I wanted to say, “Dude, you do know you’re being video monitored? Once the Covid precautions go down and they reopen the lockers, they’re going to make us leave our phones there now that they see everyone using them. Be more discrete!”

I reluctantly had to use my phone the previous night. I’m allowed to use wireless headphones if they have on-board audio. It should also draw audio from my phone automatically if I leave the phone setup properly, which I didn’t. Shortly after using my phone for a few seconds, I got a message reminding me not to use a phone at the work station. So warnings for me and not for them? Maybe they’re on the chopping block already. I don’t see how anyone can be so addicted to social media that they have to be on the phone all the time.

I’ve reconnected with a zillion old friends using Facebook. I never thought yet thought of myself as a Satanist for doing this! Whoa! Reality is stranger than fiction!

Sigh.The years have not been kind to Joanie.Overweight,