Before my computer crisis a few weeks ago, I was a loyal Facebook game player.  My games of choice were Yoville, Farmville and Mob Wars.  I dabbled in Parking Wars, Smarty Pants and My City.  I would go onto Facebook with the primary goal of tending to my crops and working in the Yoville factory and killing some thugs.  I actually would schedule errands around when these things had to be done in the games.  Then, suddenly, my computer crashed and I *gasp* had to be without it for 5 days.  ”But my crops!! My crops are gonna die!” was a thought that went through my head that night.  I went through some withdrawals.  I thought about the poor little virtual me in Yoville, with nothing to do for a few days.  When I got my computer back, I had over 150 gift requests for the games.  It was then that I realized all of the time that I actually put into them.  And what did I get out of it? Absolutely NOTHING.  The games are just the biggest time-wasters.  They sucked all my time in Facebook away.  Time that I could be actually corresponding with friends, which was the reason I joined Facebook in the first place.  Since I got my computer back, I took a personal vow to not play the games anymore on Facebook.  Thank you to all of my loyal friends who still send me gifts on there, but I am no longer playing them.  And it feels good. You should try it.

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