I'm an Addict
Game Addicts Support Group: Hi Eva.
Me: It all started just a few weeks ago. I was browsing around facebook and saw that a friend of mine had scored 280,000 play the game Bejeweled. Every day when I logged in, I saw someone else had scored big in Bejeweled. Beside the person's name was a pretty blue icon with a red star in it. It was tempting, a tease.
Game Addicts Support Group: Yeah, Facebook is a known pusher. Lures you in with the promise of game fame, high scores, awards and badges.
Me: I couldn't resist. I found my self going to visit the game site. "I'll just try it," I thought. "One game won't hurt. How wrong I was.
GASG: That what we thought. We, too, were wrong.
Me: That day, I hearned my 25,000 point badge, my 50,000 point badge, and my 100,000 point badge. I signed off, and thought everything was fine. The next day, when I turned on my computer, I felt a little twinge of curiousity. Could I earn more points? My friend had earned 280,000--she was no smarter than I! I went back to Facebook, clicked on games, and was back at it again. I started playing again; I had trouble hitting more than 25,000; I kept trying. Finally, I reached 185,000. Euphoric, I logged off and went to bed. It was 3:00 am!
GASG: So you were losing sleep, already?
Eva: Yeah, Bejeweled grabbed on to me fast. Then, the unthinkable happened; When I went back to Facebook, my score had been erased! I broke into a sweat! I had to replicate it. I tried and tried, with no success. The best I attained, after several days effort was 171,000. Then Facebook did it again; they erased all scores, and I had to start again from scratch. I'm playing Bejeweled in my sleep. There's a horn that sounds over and over to warn you that time is nearly up. The other night I was hearing it in my dreams...I thought it was a tsunami warning and was frantically trying to find a boat to get far away from shore and supposedly out of danger. I woke up exhausted. I find myself thinking in threes......eat three of the same cookies; buy three bottles of ketchup; lather, rinse, and repeat in the shower....That game is cyber-smack, I swear! I know I need to quit, cold turkey. Whoops, gotta go. Hubby just beat my highest score!
Published by Eva Gallant
I am a retired insurance sales rep, a former teacher and a wife, mother, and grandmother. View profile
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Post a CommentCute article!
I've played majonng on there, too! I think we may be hopeless addicts! lol
LOL! Hi Eva. I'm Cathy and I'm an addict, too. Darn Marie Anne turned me on to Mahjonng on FB...it calls to me constantly! Have a score of almost 3 million and all of my FB friends are amazed but I keep trying to get higher. Is there any hope for us?? :)