Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 26, 2024

Didn’t Henley also sing “Johnny Can’t Read”?

I decided not to take the USPS Part C choices of insurance this year, the choices are very limited where I live. I got a warning that I can never get it again and I am glad! Found a better one on my own

I check out Facebrick almost every day. But then I check back out after checking it out.

“We haven’t had that Opt-Out here since 1969”

We are all just prisoners here of our own device.

Pig just has to face it!

Rat is amazingly perceptive.

I’m okay with Facebook. Just glad i left the cesspool of insanity that used to be Twitter but shall now remain nameless.

Relax, said Zuckerberg, we are programmed to receive.

We are all just prisoners here, of our own device

I liked Don Henley’s ’Rocking the Boat" song!

Never checked in.

They stabbed it with their steely knives

But just can’t kill the beast

What`s a Facebook account?

I dumped Facebook several years ago and haven’t looked back. I was amazed by how much free time I had after I did.

That’s what they said about twitter, but I nuked that account without hesitation.

Now you done it. Don’s attorneys in 3-2-1…

Also in the words of Don and the Eagles, Get Over it.

As for me, I’m already gone.

I can’t seem to bother to delete any of my social media accounts.

You can delete your FB and if, years later you want it back, PRESTO! it’s still there.

Ain’t it the truth?

Maybe the three weeks I was on FB is still preserved, but other than my name, nothing is relevant any more.

Actually, its the new Hotel Rwanda because it was taken over by African hackers who changed your log in name and password and are sending Go-Fund-Me and filthy pictures to all of your Facebook friends and then to theirs because you did not pay $2000 to their Bitcom account. Which, of course, would only have been the first installment.

I live in a rural valley surrounded by high mountains and FB is my way of keeping up with what’s going on locally. Sites such as Fire and Ice, the Sherriff’s page, Civic Club, current Scanner reports, several hiking sites, Weather, etc… For me, FB is like a local newspaper with local news updated 24/7.

For some reason, instead of Hotel California, the third panel made my mind leap to “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant….excepting Alice.”

You can’t delete facebook.

It used to be possible to go to the Facebook pages of some organizations without actually being a Facebook member, if you were satisfied just to read their content without commenting on it. Our local volunteer fire department, a local chess club, a couple of other things. But now when I go to these pages, they are covered with a large pop up window telling me that I have to log in. No thanks.

Facebook won’t even let me change my name back to my maiden name.

One can try rage quitting like many are doing with X. Post screenshots too. Then join Bluesky and hope to regain the comfort of an echo chamber…

There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say:

“Why haven’t you accepted my friend request?”

Never had Fake book. For some reason that doesn’t stop the weekly emails stating “someone has tried to log into your account”

Don is a different drummer.

‘Hotel California’ is one of those songs that is more relevant than ever. I also nominate ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ by Tears for Fears.

Also Garden Of Allah, where the devil returns to earth only to realize he doesn’t have to do a thing since humans are quite evil without him.

It’s the same for . Even opting out, canceling the subscription and marking it as spam, it gets through to my inbox.

If you want out of Facebook,there’s this old fashioned thing called a “fire axe”

While they ostensibly make it look like a simple process, it’s best to throw the biggest party for Mark he ever saw.

Mojo Nixon still said it best.

I saw the Eagles live for $5.00 (yes that’s how old I am).

Left it years ago. Too toxic.

But what if I checked in using a fake name?

I really left it over a decade ago when I realized the high point was a former classmate announcing he was at the Taco Casa in the Tuscaloosa Mall. The low point was former classmates sharing TMI. I resumed it twice, once when I hoped to find specific people after a death in the family, and again after a hurricane, but I deleted it for good about 5 years ago.

What do I need Facebook for when I have gocomics?

You can’t have FBI without FB.

Facebook isn’t the only thing that you seemingly can’t opt out of. Linkedin is another. A nephew encouraged me to sign up years ago and boy am I sorry. I still get inquiries even though I’ve been retired for years. It’s nice to be wanted, I guess, ha!

Actually, yes you can…

Soon after Donnie John came on the scene in 2015, and “Facebook” started being overrun by idiots, morons and imbeciles, I cancelled my position on Facebook and I’ve never looked back – all it takes is a touch of intestinal fortitude (and an intense desire NOT to associate with cretins) …

And I never got involved with the idiocy that was “Twitter” due to their constraints of content – remember you couldn’t express yourself in more than “x” number of characters (I think it was 80) …

Glenn Frey, too.

Leaving Twitter on the other hand, that was dead simple.

I have Facebook and GoComics. Get this — I do NOT have cable TV!!

They hold your data for safekeeping and keep the mining rights.

Don’s song “Dirty Laundry” sure keeps getting truer and truer. If there isn’t enough bad news in Louisville which is the media market I’m in, they import it from elsewhere.

No escape… No escape…

My God, my God, why hast thou unfriended me?

Out of FB, Out of Amazon (walking away from many books I bought & they keep in the process), Out of WaPo until Bezos is gone.