virtually me

By now, you should be aware of -- or for some, annoyed by — the comic strips your friends have been flooding your Facebook newsfeed with.

Blame the quick rise of a new social media app called Bitstrips, which allows users to design comic versions of themselves and depict their lives in a comic strip, complete with characters and scenes of their choice. Users can also rope their friends into their comic strips and create a fictional virtual life through them.

The app’s Facebook page was launched in 2012, and it was only recently made downloadable for smartphones running on both iOS and Android.