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*

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Image via Wikipedia

            Then came Mafia wars.  And any addict who is truly honest with themselves knows that Mafia wars is exactly the same as Mob Wars just with different graphics.  But I wasn’t done there!  No!  Soon I had an apartment inYoville and a farm in Farmville.  I was trying to make my way through the city of ash and defending a castle in some other game.  I was a member of the special forces.  I say was, but let’s face it, I still am.

           I’m not sure what these application designers have done to sucker me in, but as I watch all the friends on my friends list spiral into the same traps I have, I’m not feeling so bad.  I only wish that I had the talent and time to design a facebook game of my own.  If you read this, have the ability, and take this idea and run with it.  Please remember me should it become a lucrative venture.

            I suggest a new game called Farm Wars.  In this game every simple and pure act of farming is laced with the terror and danger of the Mafia.  Missions would include stabbing the neighbor farmer with a pitchfork and stealing their hay so that your cows will produce 12% faster, robbing the feed mill of fertilizer so you can feed your crops AND build a bomb to use on your neighbors barn, and Bombing the neighbors barn to ensure you receive first place at the farm show with the pig you pilfered before the big blast earning you extra coins to buy the big tractor mounted with a mini gun so that you can blow away any live stock remaining next door.  Really, I think I have something here.

            So if you’re addicted to Facebook games, drop a comment below letting me and anyone else who reads this know which game you think is the best.