Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 18, 2020

I’ve been around far longer than social media. People were idiots before it. Now, they just have a platform to be higher profile about it.

I love social media. It helps me stay in touch with people I miss from my old hometown.

Social media quote that I’ve seen somewhere….“May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Facebook”

If they don’t have social media, how would he know what “social media” means?

There’s no social media in my world. There’s also very few people I’ve ever met worthwhile of resuming contact.

Weird thought going through my head.

During the Black Death… there was a little isolated area. They had very little contact with the outside world. Somehow they got word that the Bubonic Plague was going on. So… they tightened up their area to keep the illness away from catching it. They took precautions like we would. But… some people slip up. A cloth sales person made a distance sale with one of these people. Money was left in a spot… exchanged was the cloth. Social Distancing at its best. But… as most know… it wasn’t those invisible demons that float in the air (that we know as germs) that caused the Black Death. It was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Basically a pest inside another pest (flea). Sadly… the cloth was loaded with these infected fleas. The isolated area got devastated.

Who knows what the results would have been if they had better communication such as Social Media. (Slaps forehead) What am I thinking! We Have That Situation! And… yes… it had dumbed-down the population. People don’t want to believe the cloth is infected with an illness. We live the perfect life… no one is going to get sick… Right?

What about comments on GoComics?

“Social media” used to be talking loudly in a bar, and letting everyone know how stupid you were.

There is generally nothing social about social media. It is more Ant-social media. Just spend 5 minutes on Twitter or Parler or Facebook and you will get enough toxic posts, comments and feedback to last you 3 lifetimes.

Facebook was " invented " by Suckerberg so he could meet girls because he was too socially inept to meet them in person. And it’s been down hill ever since

What made us so stupid and dumb before that?

Make it just two: Facebook and Fox News.

I have to hand it to Eddie, when he’s right, he IS right.

Social media or anti-social media? As soon as the hammer was invented to drive nails someone used it to hit his neighbor.

Unless someone wants to tweet themselves out of a job.

It’s more about empathy than stupidity. Some believe, and work towards, giving everyone a chance and trying to make the world a better place. Others see a rat race in which road-kill only enhances their own position. Each side works with mixed intelligence at attaining their goals.

Isn’t that a violation of the Prime Directive?

Not only do we have social media, folks, we have psychologists and others doing a freudian thing and examining/discussing/arguing the pros and cons of such. . .November issue of Smithsonian had a two page article on “selfies.” Some say they are the height of “grand narcissism;” others claim that selfies are a perfectly healthy way of exploring ourselves. The article had two other tidbits of information that I found intriguing: the first “selfie” craze occurred with the discovery/creation of mirrors (earliest ones were of polished obsidian circa 6200 B.C.), AND that plastic surgery, particularly around the eyes, has become the newest beauty “craze.” Why? Because people don’t like how they look on ZOOM and/or wearing masks. . .

I remember when post cards were about as close to “social media” as you could get. Sharing pictures meant a slide show and home movies. …sigh. Who would have thought those were the “good old days”?

I’m worried. I’m beginning to be able to read this without a translator.

Don’t forget FOX.

Go back in time and kill the guy who invented Myspace.

What’s that strange tablet and stylus he’s writing on? Does it come with Bluetooth and WiFi?

Humans could be very stupid long before social media or the internet. Never underestimate the limits to human stupidity.

Yer all wrong. Social media is at least as old as the Internet, maybe older. Remember chat rooms?

All things have a good side and a bad side. The problem is that people like the bad side and tend to spread it

The greatest thing about the Internet is, everyone has an equal voice. The worst thing about the Internet is, everyone has an equal voice.

Yeah, there has always been countless stupid people, but finding and affirming each other on the internet just makes them more ignorant of their stupidity. Plus, makes them more visible to the non-stupid public, too.

Great advice. Too bad time travelers didn’t stop us.

What about the children?!?

Unfortunately the idea to not do something often leads to that thing being done. Ignorance is bliss.

I have found that social media has ups as well as downs. I’ve found groups for all kinds of scientific interests as well as great pictures of nature (One site, Octonation, has amazing short films of octopuses.).

Facebook Is a Doomsday MachineThe architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.

Read in The Atlantic: https://apple.news/AuSGWliesTHGeLEnrvkXO0g

Smartest advice ever given!

I agree—stay away from social media!