The Dangers Of The Apps

This really applies to all apps.
However I don't own an iPhone, so I can only lump them in with the others, but I can say I'm glad I don't possess one. I have nothing against them, but I'm having a hard enough time with the Blackberry and Facebook apps.
That is my phone and computer taken over. My two favourite methods of relative distant communication - my messenger pigeon is currently unavailable - disrupted by perfect addictiveness.
I have an addictive personality. Not... you can't get addicted to me, I rank right there with the cabbage, but I get addicted to games and other smiliar things easily.
My new addiction is the app.

Originally I thought about writing a survival guide, but what good would that be coming from me when I am addicted? I would only lead you wrong. I currently have an app open in another tab AS I TYPE. You would no sooner come to me for a survival guide on addictive apps then you would go to McDonald's and ask for a 14-day Diet Plan.
So instead I will write a preventative guide.

1. Don't get Facebook. That nips that one right in the bud. I understand a lot of your friends may have it and/or you may have already created one and I can only say this: it's only a matter of time. I too scoffed at the thought of owning any of these apps, but here I sit anyway.
2. Don't you hate all those posts about people needing extra building supplies for their farm, or giving away 100 cheesecakes that you can't eat? And who in their right mind would give away 100 cheesecakes anyway? Don't be the cause of these posts.
3. So you don't have to post these things and all your friends own a farm/cafe/island/zoo and you feel you must have one too. STOP! All your friends had facebook too, didn't they? And you created one, didn't you? Look where that's got you so far.
4. You don't own a farm/cafe/island/zoo and can't reap the rewards, that little person on the screen does. That is not fair.
5. The fear of rejection when no one wants to be your neighbour. Don't drag your friends into the same mess by inviting them, think about the lives they are leading and the fact they actually leave the house occasionally without the aid of an invitation to an 'event' that you can't go to anyway because you have to stay in and watch over the farm.

1. Don't get a Blackberry. Half the apps you have to pay for with REAL MONEY! None of that virtual money you have become accustomed to on the Facebook apps. Your actual money.
2. Your phone needs its precious memory to hold more important things like your millions of messages, photos and songs. Be nice to your phone, because its ability to phone people will be the thing that helps you out in the middle of the night on a country road when you have broken down, not that app which tells you the prices of local resturants. Those apps will leave you little more than axe-murderer fodder.

So maybe you're not convinced - I know I'm not.
I do know this though... I will get bored of these apps and the crops will wither, the food will rot, the island will be ripped apart in a hurricane and the animals will perish.
Don't let it happen.
An app is not just for the boring times, it's for life.


Final Irrelevant Note: Don't watch Marley & Me. It is the sad-maker to Mentos' fresh-making.