Can you water plants on farmville? I think not.. Hey lady, can I add you and your new born baby as my neighbors. I need two more neighbors to expand my farm to a large 18 by 18 farm. I will gift you a goat in return !
Problem with these SNS and Games is the checks and balances. The games are designed such that you keep thinking about the game and how to increase your points, ranking etc. I was a mafia wars addict and all the time hooked on to the game. Mobiles with Internet does not help either..I really was become a virtual being trying to stay online 24X7... All my self control barriers were knocked down...One off day, i thought about it and de activated my FB account. Later on, I deleted it. I could not tell you the relief I got. For keeping in touch with people - I call them, visit them or use gtalk. I am much more happy these days sans the thought to grow my mafia etc. and also saved from crap people post on their walls (even I was one of them). Slowly, I stopped using twitter, orkut, buzz and other SNS I was hooked on to. It was kinda extreme but I feel no void in life without SNS.
Re: Famville and Other Social Networking Sites (SNS)/Games
by teetee on May 17, 2010 05:14 PM
Popular social networking websites such as Facebook have been blamed for the rise in cases of syphilis as members go for unprotected s*x with partners they meet on the Internet.
Official figures showed a four-fold increase in the UK in cases of potentially-lethal syphilis.
