February 1, 2019
#2106: Sharing Options explain
[Cueball floating in midair is communicating with a small floating screen that resembles a smartphone. Other people and clouds visible floating by in background.]
Screen: Welcome to social media! When you put stuff here, you have two options: (1) You can make it available to a small set of 300 or so approved friends.
[Cueball is still floating and talking with the smartphone. Other people and clouds visible floating by in background.]
Screen: Or (2) you can share permanent copies of it all with billions of people, including internet scammers, random predatory companies, and hostile governments.
[In a frameless panel, Cueball has stopped moving and is facing the screen]
Cueball: Why would anyone pick option two?
Screen: Two is the default.
Cueball: Yikes.
[Cueball is still floating and talking with the smartphone. Other people and clouds visible floating by in background. Cueball has his hand raised]
Cueball: So those are the only two options? There’s nothing in between?
Screen: I don’t understand. Like what?
[Cueball continues floating and talking with the smartphone. Other people and clouds visible floating by in background.]
Cueball: I mean…there are numbers between 300 and a billion.
Screen: Huh? Name one.
Screen: Pretty sure I would have heard of those.