Sunday, February 13, 2011
facebook a casino or not?
at first this seemed like a difficult question but the longer i thought about it, the easier the answer became. My answer is simply yes. Both these resources share many similarities which lead me to my conclusions. The first similarity would have to be that both can take up large amounts of your time. You can get stuck at a table for hours while you can get hooked into spending hours mindlessly wondering friends pages to read their thoughts. The next similarity would have to be that you can spend/loose a lot of money. In the casinos you spend money on trying to win more money while on facebook you can spend money to win achievements/medals on farmville, cafe world, etc. Another one would be that there's always someone watching your every move. In facebooks case it's "big brother" while in the casinos its in the form of security guards. While there are other aspects that separate the 2 which makes them so unique, I would have to say that the similarities win this argument.
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Agreed! The two similarities that bother me the most about this are how you can lose a lot (in my opinion time is the biggest thing we lose on Facebook) and you're always being monitored in the form of personally tailored advertisements, etc. These are also reasons why I'm not a huge fan of casinos or Facebook.
ReplyDeleteI think that you brought up very excellent points in regards to Facebook! People can spend hours gambling (like what you said, at the same table) while "Facebookers" can spend hours at a time looking at other people's pages or playing Farmville to win "virtual acheivements." Both gambling and Facebook can be addictive!
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