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Hello, My Name is Angela and I’m Addicted To Facebook.

This has been a slow, creeping addiction. I start off all of my addictions this way. When I smoked, it was just a couple of cigarettes when I was drinking, then it slowly bled over into my daily life. When I played Shadowbane to the exclusion of all other social interaction, I just started playing a few hours a week and by the time I was done I was commanding an army over over 100 people online, every night.

Now it’s Facebook. Oh yeah, I started off slow. I just checked my messages, looked for old friends, and had the pleasure of reconnecting with a few. Then I started on the games. That is where the trouble started.

There’s this little outfit named Backstage Technologies out of Vancouver that makes little free gambling games that follow the addict’s pattern of risk/reward rather nicely. I have all of them on my Facebook profile. I play Slots everyday to get more credits for Scratch and Win, and play Pull Tabs every chance I get.

Then some scintillating asshole released a game called “Might of Many”. Remember MUDS, text-based games on the BBS’s that were basically a D&D game online? Remember how fun those were? Yeah, some genius decided to stick a MUD on Facebook. Goodbye world, hello guild-building.

Might of Many has also destroyed the pristine quality of my friends list. It has diluted it with mouth-breathing strangers from all over the world (like me) who are completely addicted to it. By the way, if you are a MoM player, my game name is Ilia (that is I as in Ivan, L as in lovely - ia). Add me dude.

I have resorted to an 8 hour a day lockout on Facebook. If I even find myself going to the address bar, I check myself and go to one of my daily news sites for a break instead. I don’t know if I’ll be able to maintain… sweating… but I’ll try!

Posted: July 9th, 2008 under Technobabble.
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