Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 29, 2021

I think you mean Meta.

Facebook and its revirgination in META doesn’t change the mud.

I’d never use the thumb-up on Facebook Messenger in those scenarios.

A few years ago, you could click like, but the other options were missing. It was hard to figure out what to do when someone died.

Mum got hit by a bus? Ooo, that’s harsh. Pig, you should send an LOL (Lots Of Love).

On these forums, a thumbs up for people having troubles means we are thinking of them.

You could call them later and say that you were hoping Mom was on her way to Heaven, as opposed to the alternative.

Why is Facebook like Jail?

“You have a profile picture, you sit around all day writing on walls, and you get poked by guys you don’t really know!”

I HAVE accidentally hit the wrong emoji button. Guess what: You can just go click a different one and suddenly, that’s the one that the audience sees. By the way, the one I got wrong was hitting the LOL emoji when I was aiming for the SAD emoji.

I forgot to post on Facebook I was going to the gym. Now this whole workout was a waste of time.

Anyone remember the good old days before Facebook, Instagram and Twitter?

When you had to take a photo of your dinner, then get the film developed, then go around to all your friends’ houses to show them the picture of your dinner?

Oops!

That’s called a Fat Finger Fiasco.

Ouch! My sympathies to everyone, but it’s on Pig to come forward, apologize, explain himself and make amends.

How about the days before cell phones when people actually talked with each other!

This one seems autobiographical

Nearly had a tea spluttering moment when I read today’s cartoon. I’m sure Farcebook/Metafeta cheese will start a war with someone hitting the thumbs up key.

That’s cool, Pig. Funerals aren’t exactly fun.

And GoComics has the like button.

I have never been disinvited to a funeral. My family simply wait until after the funeral to notify me that someone died, I am definitely the black sheep of the family.

just wow pig wow

No social graces anymore. Family news spread like an ill-directed sneeze.

Oof.

I don’t gets this. Must be a Meta joke.

Bus drivers do it all the time.

Well, damn, Pig. XD XD

Messenger? no, nobody better be trying to tell me anything important in Facebook Messenger

Mah lord its changed since the first strip

Maybe the best ever. Mr. Pastis can now retire.

But he did get a token of appreciation from the bus company.

Yes. All of them-except my own.

What I really hate is accidentally hitting g the “send” icon when I’m still trying type the message.

No matter the name, it’s still a cesspool of devious deeds and hatred!

Ever notice how easy it is to accidently click that [big UNFOLLOW] button on [GoComics while scrolling on a smartphone]?

Facebook? Now it’s called Meta. This strip is gonna need to be updated.

Avoid Facebook, and Messenger doesn’t matter. End of problem.

There’s a case to be made for flip-phones. This is one of them.

There was a true story recently about a not-so-hip mother who sent her daughter a text that her aunt had just died. She ended it with LOL. The daughter inquired about that and the mother replied: doesn’t that mean lots of love?

Only you, Pig, only you.

I’m,safe.I’m such a Luddite I couldn’t make that mistake if I tried.

Poor pig. His friend is a jerk.

My aunt’s name is Meta. I wonder if she’ll get a royalty.

“If you don’t go to peoples funerals, they probably won’t come to yours”—Yogi Berra

I’m looking for a blocker that will permanently erase that controlling thing.

What’s Messenger?

Why social media sucks.

That’s the danger of being quick to click, Pig.

Besides, a lot of people would relish being disinvited from an event to which they didn’t really want to go….

Like Facebook, but Meta-Worse

Also long pressing it blows up the size of the “thumbs up”!

Meta means “dead” in Hebrew