While I don’t use many applications outside of general tools, (movies/music/etc.) I feel you did not really address the vampire/werewolves/zombie apps well. I do use werewolves and it is more of a primitive RPG game than a “useless application”, and I don’t know, games may seem to be useless to you, but the electronic games market shows a lot of people may not feel the same. I know in the end, a game is useless, when judged by the final end-effect. But think about this: In a video game, you spend “years” creating an empire, and succeeding in whatever the goals were supposed to be, then you get tired of the game, grow old, and die. When you are dead, it will not matter if you played the game or not. But if you spent your real life creating a “real” empire in… whatever, after you die it still won’t matter at all, because everything in this world will end anyway. Now, depending on your religious views some of the things you do in this life may make a difference. I believe they do, and most of the things you can do in a game would affect that to the negative.
This being said, I think video games provide an outlet to some of the darker urges in this life, possibly keeping them from being “useless”.

I would also like to point out that I have always had a feeling that allot of the hate some have for certain icons or objects in our culture is directly proportioned to the popularity it possesses. If it is from the injured ego of one who has never possessed popularity or just a general distaste or the popularity concept, I can’t say. In this age, our society as a whole is trying in vain to define themselves. The definition of “Define” is recognizing attributes that make an element stand out, or be different, when compared to other elements like it, which is arguably useless with regard to social behavior, because no matter what you choose to do, (even if you choose to do nothing) has already been done by someone else before. I have met so many people who hate the iPod, and can’t tell me why… until I finally get it out of them that it’s just because everyone has one. This leads one to the fact of “Everyone is trying to be different….just like everyone else”. But what confuses me is that people hang on to their own way of being different no matter how illogical it proves to be. Keep in mind that I am not trying to attack your ideas, I am just expressing mine. It has been a long time since I have felt compelled to write about something for fun, and I thank you.
So, I guess my point is, If you spend all your time deciding how not to spend your time (or arguing on what ways you should), you end up doing nothing, and then you become the pet rock.

Scarlet Hip - To clarify, poking is not a Facebook app. So no, you can keep poking to your heart’s content.

On the Pet Rock:I have a plethora of collected,’ be-still-ma-heart’ shaped rocks that I think have more character than any pet rock-inna-box could live up to.

I’ve kept my love for random heart rock findings with me over the years, like thumb-sucking or bed-wetting, I’ve kept this heart rock complex with me for the past 31 years and going strong. I just can’t give it up.

Facebook.com = bologna that tries too hard to be something it will never amount too … like the kinda bologna with Spanish olives that somehow remain intact in it’s own casing. Spooky meats have never done it for me and never will.

I’ll take a URL link to WFME over Facebook any day o’the week.

-Nic

I never got into Facebook. I tried, but nahhh.

No offense intended for this site’s great and geniune host or the wonderfully sincere folks who post on this site who may have a Facebook or My Space account.