Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 09, 2024

They do love to share the misery

Please just stop telling me you “Loved” “Liked” or whatevered the text I just sent you. I wrote the text I do not need to see it again with your mindless and automatic thought attrached. “Mildly concerned about your neediness and mental state that has you tell me you loved the thing I just wrote. Seek help. I would love that.”

Hey, 40+ years ago you’d have to sit through the slide show. Or home videos. In person.

I’m thinking Jimmy got the idea for the noose from an old scene of Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker on ‘All In the Family’ doing the noose move as Edith told a long story. :-D

So true. Good one, JJ.

I’m with Arlo.

Cheer up, Arlo. At least this way no one brings slides.

Great depiction of Arlo hanging himself!

Trivia?

I’m guessing posting the most trivial information is done on Facebook? I dunno, I don’t do Facebook, Twitter or any other social media sharing. I think Arlo and I are one of the few who really don’t care for over-sharing, and I get weird looks from others when I inform them I don’t have a facebook account. From Arlo’s gesture, I’m glad I have chosen not to participate in such things!

I’m with Arlo on this one, I miss the days before social media. Back then you just got the Christmas newsletter/card that you could chuck in the bin.

Social media is boring and a lot of celebrities got bored of sharing their lives there, thousands of actors, models and singers didn’t post on social media for months.

I don’t consider collecting names on social media as having friends. Start packing and get moving!

People who feel compelled to tell me where they’re eating and post a picture of their plate………SAVE ME FROM HELL!

Maybe he’s reacting to Janis’ recap of everything she reads, not the friends posts.

I’ve been there.

Can I borrow the rope after you’re done with it Arlo? I know the feeling……meta-cute attack!

And with friends like these, who needs enemies.

I am with Arlo. Mostly from jealousy.

He just likes ‘hanging’ with them.

no place for me to use sloop on this one Opps SLOPE, thanks for all the corrections, never had so many replies, didn’t know all you had to do was misspell a word

Arlo putting out some serious Archie Bunker vibes…

I’m with Arlo on this one

I’m w/ Arlo as well. As soon as wifey says “I saw on Fakebook” I tune out.

I’m in agreement with Arlo.

Shall I post that I just farted?

If Jimmy wants to be kind to those that read this strip, he will skip all the moving BS (I’m going to miss this house, remember all the good times here? etc) and just do a time jump to them already moved. Please be merciful and do that, Jimmy. We already can have a pretty good idea how it all pans out, so please just skip it.

Shared to Facebook…

I’m with Arlo on this one!

My feelings exactly.

I was on FB for about three weeks. Long enough to connect to bunch of people I knew and realize I had zero interest in their daily routines. I never posted anything either, so I bailed.

I feel for Arlo!

George and Mary may not be so friendly after they see today’s comic.

Archie and Edith.

Nice! No friends that have lost their minds in the Magat cult! A difficult but prudent thing to do, pruning friends on Facebook. As Teddy Roosevelt once said: “A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb: “Speak softly and carry a big stick — you will go far.” If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting, and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words, his position becomes absolutely contemptible. So it is with the nation.”

Now Teddy’s party is “led” by such a man. His followers are indoctrinated cultists.

This actually made me laugh!!

What kind of dog is a Sciatica???

I like to see what my friends and relatives are doing. My husband is friends with most of my group so he can read them himself. I only have about 60 “friends” (mostly relatives) and I think at least 3 of them have died in the last 2 years.

Why is Arlo mocking other people’s lives? His life is much more boring than most people.

It would seem that everyone on FB, Instagram, twitter, etc…is having a better time / life than me. They probably are, but do they have to rub it in?

Jimmy, stop peeking into my living room.

Yeah, I have friends, too – and, unless I’m enjoying it with them, I don’t give a good goddam what they’re having for dinner.

I wouldn’t have thought this possible 20 years ago, but anti-social media has lowered our aggregate IQ by probably 100 points.

Maybe Arlo is into autoerotic asphyxiation. Back to the hot tub!

Used to have to wait for Christmas letters,

My sentiments exactly.

I’m with you Arlo!

To each his own.

That panel is priceless!! A total put down of social media crap that makes up most of the social media which clogs up our brains.

Sometimes it’s like reading one of those self-congratulary Christmas newsletters THAT NEVER END.

Last frame – excellent!

I’m with Arlo.

To add to her naration, yesterday I referred to “my favorite Harper” (age 5).

Her little sister (age 3) objected adamantly:

“She is NOT YOUR favorite Harper. She is MY favorite Harper!!”

“Well, she WOULD be my favorite Harper if she weren’t already YOUR favorite Harper.”

She found that acceptable and peace once again reigned.

GoComics is most of my social media. Husband is online with old friends from high school and college. He keeps pushing me to do the same. Well, he is in contact with our college friends – so why should I bother and I have very few friends from the past. School friends were basically the people who lived on the same block as us – and had nothing in common with them. Only person other than him on FB that I spoke with was when he pushed me to look up my high school boyfriend earlier this year. I found him said hello, married, etc and he did the same – then ran out of things to say and have not posted again or checked my FB page – which is mostly used by husband after he lost his for awhile several years ago due to different meanings of a word mlta (add 3 i’s) which is in the name of our 18th c reenactment unit but was taken to mean something else at the time.

I’m with Arlo….

“Chez Stuft”. Love it!

They may be friends, but she is not really sharing what she sees with him. Just telling him what he is missing out on. Either show it to him, forward it to him, or just shut up.