Please Help Me, I’m Addicted to Facebook Games!

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            It started out simply enough.  The facebook thing I mean.  It was peer pressure, I swear!  My friends kept telling me to get on facebook, and so I did.  Sometimes I like to fit in, and besides, I like to know what’s going on with my friends and family without the inconvenience of having to actually talk to them on the phone or in person.  (confessions of a hermit)  This is when I noticed a phenomenon in the upper right hand corner of the screen, they were invitations!

            I felt a little weird about being super poked, and even weirder about super poking, so that application went the way of the dodo for me.  I only wish that others had done this as well.  Instead, somewhere between writing unique and interesting facebook status (or would it be stati) I became entangled in a snarl of facebook games that have completely taken over my life.  At the time the obsession had driven me to check facebook every hour.  Yes!  Every hour!

            My first addiction was Mob Wars.  (http://apps.facebook.com/mobwars/)  It intrigued me.  I didn’t need the finger and thumb coordination that is required for a Xbox or Playstation, nor any of the strange coordination needed to master the Wii.  I simply needed to point and click.  Click.  I mugged some one.  Click.  I robbed a liquor store.  Click.  I heisted a train.  It was empowering.  Then I discovered fights.  I could fight with guns and cars and body armor…and I could kill!  Yes!  Not something allowed in day to day life.  And now, I just can’t give the game up because where else will I ever make 400 million dollars an hour?  *sigh*