The End of Meaningless Clicks

"So many apps, so little time." One of my Facebook friends once posted this status. If you are hooked to this social networking site and its applications, you might feel obligated to accept app requests. There's always the Ignore button but sometimes curiosity compels you to do otherwise and once you start with an application, you'll see yourself visiting it everyday. "It's just for fun. I only do it to kill time." But is it still fun when you wake up at three in the morning because you've replenished enough energy to get even with an enemy mafia? Are you enjoying yourself when your wife quarrels you for hiring someone else to harvest your pineapples? And why risk telling someone your username and password just because your King Crab Bisque needs to be served and you're nowhere near a computer? Yes, I've heard stories like that and to add my own, I once almost wasted our dinner because of Restaurant City. It's been more than a year since I played these games and all I gained was nothing. It's all just a waste of time - non-productive, non-profitable, and meaningless. They don't even exercise your brain.

The last time I logged in to Facebook was five days ago. I logged in today and ignored 309 app requests. From now on, I'm only using Facebook as an avenue to share and learn about people's interests, thoughts, ideas, and experiences... hopefully... and play poker.