LIKE FARMVILLE AND Candy Crush before it, Bitstrips is the new craze on Facebook.

In case you’ve been lucky enough not to notice, Bitstrips is a new app that allows you to make a cartoon avatar of yourself in order to post ‘gas’ comic strips with your friends’ avatars.

We’ve come to the conclusion that they are a force that must be stopped before it’s too late and Aunt Margaret isn’t speaking to you any more because you ignored her Bitstrip requests.

At first, they were slightly amusing. A novelty

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But then they started to get a bit repetitive, and we just can’t deal with them any more. We’re done

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This is you

This is your timeline

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This is what you want to do to people using Bitstrips

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They’re the new ‘thing’

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But they’re essentially just statuses that take too much effort

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It’s yet another way for your parents to mortify you on social media

The politics of making an avatar is a tricky one

They provide a platform for a status update even when there’s nothing to say

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They make you despise people you thought you knew so well

They exaggerate already annoying traits

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NO ONE LIKES THEM

AT ALL, LIKE

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Don’t worry! You can block them.

Just go to account settings in the upper right hand corner:

Select the Block option on the left hand menu:

Type in Bitstrips:

FREEDOM

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