Once upon a time, I used to belong to a parenting forum and some of the women on there actually admitted to playing online games like World of Warcraft and The Sims and things like that. I honestly never understood the appeal. I likened playing online video games to something teenaged computer geek boys did. And for crying out loud, where did they find the time to play games? Most all of them had more children than I did and it was all I could do to get a shower most days, nevermind play in a fantasy world.
Then a few months ago on Facebook I got an application request from a friend to start my very own virtual fish tank called Happy Aquarium. It looked easy and fun, and besides…it’s just a fish tank, not a real game or anything. And the fact that I am on Level 29 does not mean I have a problem. Not at all!
I even laughed two weeks ago at my aunt and cousin. They play a game on Facebook called Cafe World where you cook food and serve it to your friends. They were constantly checking their food they were cooking throughout the day on the computer so it wouldn’t burn on their virtual oven tops and I cackled at the sheer absurdity of WHY on God’s green earth that anyone would find anything remotely entertaining about a cooking game.
And then I went home and checked out Cafe World, built a cafe, and proceeded to waste two solid hours of my life that I will never get back building up my restaurant and cooking virtual food. Oops.
All of my Facebook friends swear I need to play Farmville and join Mafia Wars, but the thought of having to feed my fish, run a restaurant, AND tend to a whole freakin’ farm while knocking off people at The Don’s request just stresses me out.
In any case, I apologize for my stereotypical thoughts about online gamers because, Surprise!, they’re normal people, too…just like me. What games are you hooked on?
I purposely don't look at Facebook games. I don't have room for another time suck. Between blogs and Twitter I'm done.
I do play Bejeweled every so often. My husband is a WoW addict and I've referred to myself as a WoW Widow.
Some days I'm glad I don't have a iPhone. I think I'd be checking one thing or another all day long, LOL!
I don't play the Facebook games, I'm too much of a hard core gamer for that LOL! I'm all about some video games. These days, it's mostly Wii games, especially New Super Mario Bros Wii, and Animal Crossing. I blame my addiction on my hubby, he's way worse than me!
I used to play the games on Facebook, but was spending too much time there. Deleted ALL those games/applications, and surprisingly my life is still complete.
Now I have my iphone I do play some the the free apps games, but not to same extent.
You know it has been a long time since I have played any games on Facebook. Too many other distractions. When I play games I prefer things like Zuma. Of course, what I really need to "play" is my EA Sports Active 😉
I'm totally addicted to FishWorld and Mafia Wars. Its the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning. My previous addictions were FarmTown and CafeWorld and Yoville. What is it about these virtual games that makes me NEED to check the computer to feed virtual fish and check and see if fake food is ready????? Oh, but I do love it!
I won't admit I have a cute apartment in Yoville.
Webkinz eager beaver adventure park.
My husband is into "zingbots" on webkinz.
Our boys have over $70,000 webkinz dollars. :-0
haha Farkle! My fish are dead, my cows are starving and my crops are wasted as I sit and play farkle all day long!