A Sense Of Accomplishment

I came in here a little over an hour ago to write this post and just now finally started. The delay, you ask?

Facebook.

Not updating status or checking others' statuses or any of that. It's the gimmicks. The games, the quizzes, the contests. All of those little addictive things we all encounter on the Internet everyday and promptly forget about shortly thereafter. I've got several games going on Facebook that I haven't checked in days/weeks as any of my SuperPoke Pets Friends could tell you! Poor Sexual Harassment Panda!

But where they really sucker you in is stuff like the trivia challenges. You see one of your friends doing something like, "The Songs of the 80s" with their score listed - almost daring you to try and spend a few minutes to break it. You give it a shot, maybe you break it and maybe you don't but soon enough, you find yourself trying another trivia challenge... then another... then another...

Maybe you finally break free. Maybe you go back to your Home page to discover someone has listed their Top Five favorite beers. "Well, that sounds easy enough" you remark only to spend the next ten minutes trying to remember what beer you usually buy at the store when you have the money to buy whatever you want. Then it's your Top Five favorite sports teams - a definite challenge when you really only consider yourself a fan of three professional sports teams. That one bugs you so you stray...

...what's this? Someone got HOW MANY points on Bejeweled Blitz?! Impossible!

And so it goes.

But in the end, it's the feeling of accomplishment that Facebook provides that is the true drug of choice. In some warped way, it doesn't FEEL like an hour wasted when you can look back and say...

** Blue picked the Lakers, Dodgers, Red Sox, Kings (LA, that is!), and Cubs as his Top Five Favorite Sports Teams.
** Blue picked Corona, Red Stripe, Fuller's London Pride, Sapporo, and Stella Artois as his Top Five Favorite Beers
** Blue scored 2187 points on "80's songs - Who Sang It?" trivia challenge
** Blue scored 1458 points on the Friends trivia challenge
** Blue scored 2787 points on the Star Wars Quote trivia challenge
** Blue earned a 25k Star Medal in Bejeweled Blitz
** Blue earned a 50k Star Medal in Bejeweled Blitz

SCORED! EARNED! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

How could that POSSIBLY be a waste of 60 minutes? Now I can go to bed and...

OOOH! WHO IS YOUR CLASSIC WRESTLING LEGEND ALTER EGO QUIZ!!!

Errr... what was I saying?