Pickles by Brian Crane for January 30, 2019

as much as I have a Facebook, I don’t recall seeing identical, consecutive posts after scrolling down

I do. It happens quite a lot, even on my own page! Very annoying.

Makes me glad to not be on it. That, and the sharing of all your data to anyone with the money to buy it…

I’m a Facebook-holdout (and Instagram, Twitter, etc.) and proud of it!

Hum ….. that identical post thing happens a lot here on GoComics ;-)

Hum ….. that identical post thing happens a lot here on GoComics ;-)

Hum ….. that identical post thing happens a lot here on GoComics ;-)

Hum ….. that identical post thing happens a lot here on GoComics ;-)

Does anyone still use Facebook? Poor souls.

When that happens, I click “hide this post” so it no longer comes up in my newsfeed.

I was going to say “Like they can hear you, Opal”…but given the way that Big Brother is watching, they probably can….

I use it, but only as a “public commentary” platform. Personal, private, and financial things don’t go there.

As for pet peeves, Facebook frequently leaves my news feed completely blank while requesting that I add more friends. It’s very rude for them to hold my newsfeed hostage like that.

The Internet can rot your brain just as much as television.

I like facebook. It keeps my wife occupied.

So “Facebook – time well wasted” is no longer their slogan?

And quit wasting OUR time! Some of us have 100 more comics to read!

We don’t know anything about wasting time, do we?

It’s pretty funny that everyone here complaining about Facebook is commenting on this site which is run by a large for-profit corporation using cookies to track your web browsing. You’re not as anonymous as you think. And ad-blockers don’t do as much as you think, either.

Two nights ago I was out in my back yard and heard a noise that sounded like it could have been from a .22 rifle. Since I didn’t hear any police sirens going off I figured that it probably didn’t involve anyone getting shot and more than likely just some noise similar to a rifle shot. About an hour later MY wife came out to tell me that the neighbor across the street who was out of town had gotten a notice from a Facebook post that there had been a shooting, not a noise or anything close to that but a shooting in our neighborhood and we should all get indoors until we were notified that it was safe. I finally chased down the original post and some idiot in our neighborhood had posted that there had been a shooting and gave the address from where the shot came from. Their evidence was that they had heard the same noise that I had heard. By that time the whole neighborhood was in an uproar over it with one person saying that hopefully it was someone target practicing over on the old driving range behind us. Our neighborhood could be described as an upper-middle class one with about 45 houses in one section and about 45 in the other. I knew that not all of the residents were overflowing with common sense but this proves it. Folks, I can clap two boards together and it will sound just like a rifle shot. Maybe I need to start doing that every night around 10:00 just to see what kind of confusion I can create.

Being popular on Facebook is like sitting at the cool table, at the looney bin.

“I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

I would never say the people on it are losers, but that’s only because I’m polite.." – Betty White

Wise words, indeed.

Simple solution: Quit Facebook.