Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 03, 2022

And you have the freedom to ignore the social media posts you’re not interested in.

Thats three Bobs in as many days.

This is not like social media. In social media, you don’t even have to say “Hi” for someone to slam you with their opinion.

And how is this cafe different from all the others?

Why did he go there in the first place

Could also be if what if real life were like the go comics comment section!

I talk to myself.

I don’t attend.

All things in moderation…

There is an off switch somewhere on the devices.

Not on social media and never want to be.

My favorite one was “World War 2 bomber found on the Moon” in the now defunct Weekly World News. Social media put it out of business!

It still better than the the lying paid propaganda peddling mainstream media café. They serve you muddy water and tell you its coffee.

Was someone mean to Mr. Pastis on Twitter again?

Remember when social media was mostly just people taking pictures of their food?

bad apps,

bad apps,

bad apps, bad apps, bad apps,

bad apps,

bad aaaaaaaaapps

ba, ba, ba, bad apps

ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba-ba,

bad apps

(sung to the Pink Panther theme)

Cartoon Boy bitching about social media again. Thumbs down.

You could be nice about the guy whose uncle died.

Gocomics is the only Social Media site I go to before noon.

This is so Meta!

Rat keeping it real as always

In weaning myself off FB I Discovered several things: 1) on FB, I felt I was in touch up-to-date with friends and family…that’s a myth. Posts are Nothing like reality of what these loved ones are experiencing 2) I love seeing photos, so I do miss those. Now I ask for them to be shared by email. 3) phone visits are wonderful when distances are too far for personal visits 4) it took a bit of weaning, but not terribly difficult .. And the fuller relationships plus peace of mind is grand

Social media is tearing us apart.

Daily.Constantly.

Remember, if you aren’t paying, you aren’t the customer.

It is your right to be wrong.

I gave up Facebook several years ago and soon realized that I was, and I still am, significantly better off without its net negative influence.

That next to last panel reminds me of Ralph Steadman’s style.

Nailed it, Pastis!

Our society is OUT IF CONTROL!

Social media seems to give people more room to be narcissistic then they would otherwise. Rat likely hates it because social media makes him just big mouthed fish in an extremely crowded pond.

The ironic thing is that Stephan Pastis has a social media account.

“All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” *

We’re too late?

(Quote attributed to Edmund Burke, but the closest to it actually found in his writings is: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

See: https://tartarus.org/martin/essays/burkequote2.html for a more detailed discussion)

Ten years ago https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2022/04/03?ct=v&cti=1498567

Not so far from reality.

I’d comment on today’s strip but I need to post about my kids WHO ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD AND EVERYONE ON SOCIAL MEDIA LOOKS FORWARD TO THESE POSTS I’M SURE!

What’s an app? Why are they used? Seems like the solution is just don’t use apps….

For managers, it’s called kick ass and take names … plus revenge at rating time.

Don’t worry, Be happy…

Don’t do Facebook anymore for this very reason.

I peeked into my FB account after a near 2 year reprieve. What a mess. I only keep it as backup for friends that use the FB messenger for serious announcements.

you forgot cat pictures/videos and pictures of food.

Let’s just call it antisocial media

Thus is the reason I don’t have a Facebook account.

The infallible method of dealing with social media is to simply ignore it all and not participate….period. I have never been a part of it and never will, and have always considered it to be a bad idea. If I’m in the mood to socialize I do it in person or over the phone.

You need to send thost “bad apps” to the cornfield, Pig.

The Machine Wars are being won by the Machines and their insidious Fifth Column, the Apps. Take a hint: Protagonist-Guy in the story is a Redshirt Guy, and we all know what that means!…

which is all of them

Rip-off of Dave Chapelle!