Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 19, 2025

“Now that we’re focused on our phones, let’s wander into traffic!”

But on GoComics, your posts can be deleted just because somebody doesn’t like your opinion and flags your post.

How does avoiding social media fix social media? If he stops using social media, the problems he complains about will still exist.

Needs to get on Bucky Katt’s “Anti social website”

I GET why Tictok is banned now. I watched Smerconish today and it is less about spying and more about false news. trump even admits that Tictoc was a major factor in his duping Americans. That is why he is now in love with the app which he once hated!

Would you provide a link to the website where he says what you quote? Thank you.

Another interesting book on the topic is “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt. But I think it may already be too late. The Fermi Paradox looks more and more bleak…

Same as 80s TV, 90s radio … back to Tanakh, Bible and Koran. I’m sensing a pattern here.

Goat needs some new friends.

A person could easily fall into the social media black hole of untruths and opinions, I limit my interactions to music I like and old friend’s conversation!

Mastodon is social media and has no algorithm to speak of, just a chronological feed. You get what you follow.

Of course, it couldn’t be the “real” media or the oppressive government making people angry or divided. Just consume and listen to us and all will be peaceful.

Trump Inauguration on MLK Day! Go Irony that one out for yourselves…on SOCIAL MEDIA!!

My online guilty pleasure is car crash videos. I’m not sure, but I think this makes me a bad person.

My FB “Reels” shove road rage and brake-checking dash cam vids in my face. I skip over them now.

I saw an article about the disruptor impact of the printing press. It wasn’t printing the Bible (which was important) but that one of the most popular books was about how to find witches. (“300-year terror: How the printing press fueled witch hunts, misinformation in Europe.”) So…here we are 300 years later.

Don’t blame social media. The bible tells us the human heart is the most deceitful and wicked thing. (Jeremiah 17:9). There is no cure but Jesus.

Quasimodo, the quarterback of Notre Dame, predicted all of this. Or was it the baseball player, Yogi Bear? Or was it Baba Ganoush? I can’t remember. Never mind.

Those who most need to read the book won’t put their phones down long enough to do so.

I’m going to look for this at my library.

That explains so much.

So true. It’s called a .“strong take”. And it pervades more than social media. We are over stimulated. And this has had major effects on all aspects of society. As I like to say. Too Much Information!!

It’s time it was re-titled ‘Anti-social Media’.

It’s no accident that Donnie and Emo both own social media companies. Just watch, one or the other will buy TT

Does the Chaos Machine provide guns?

Anonymity also seems to increase hostility and name calling. For all many know, those they are arguing and denigrating with are actually someone they consider a friend.

Why do I try? Why?

Maybe Zebra would be more interested in my information.

Humans. So stupid.

The book is only half true. The media companies show users what the users engage with. It just so happens that most people choose to engage with the divisive antagonistic comments of others. The users who engage with these comments create a cycle of hate for themselves.

I never engage with these posts and therefore I rarely see them. When I do see them in search results, I block the account posting it. I’ve create a cycle of the no-hate.

TikTok and the like need to be banned for more reasons than “the Chinese are spying on us”.

Most “Social Media” is for weak-minded people,imo…

Careful Pig. Around here, simply having a different opinion will get one labeled an “enemy.”

This comic outrages me!

Which is why I don’t have any social media accounts. YouTube I use for help in figuring out a problem like cooking shows or how to fix things when the directions are not clear enough, etc.

I’ve actually deleted Facebook off of my phone. More time for meaningful (relatively speaking) pursuits.

The Social Dillema is a very good documentary on this.

How do they profit from it?

And the beat goes on……

Nailed it Pastis.