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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

1:34 AM

Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 (FAV - Facebook Applications Version)

Pleasures Are Meaningless

I thought in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with facebook applications to find out what is good." But that also proved to be meaningless. "Laughter," I said, "is foolish." And what does pleasure accomplish?" I tried cheering myself with SuperPoke!, and embracing Daily Horoscope—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was worthwile for men to do inside Facebook during the few hours in a day.

I installed popular applications: I built Cafe World for myself and planted FarmVille. I made Garden World and Parking Wars and invented MindJolt Games in them. I made neighbour features to entertain crowds of active users. I bought male and female pets from Pet Society and had other animals who were born in PetVille & Zoo World. I also owned more fishes in Fishville and rollercoaster rides in Rollar Coaster Kingdom than anyone in the friends list before me. I amassed silver and gold for myself in Texas Hold'Em Poker, and the treasure of kings and provinces in Three Kingdoms Online. I acquired men and women gangsters in Mafia Wars, and an Are YOU Interested application—the delights of the heart of man. I became greater by far than anyone for Challenge Sudoku in the friends list before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

I denied myself nothing my friends sent;
I refused my heart no gift requests.
My heart took delight in all my character levels,
and this was the reward for all my long hours in Facebook.

Yet when I surveyed all that my hand had clicked
and what I had stayed online to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.

(Composed by myself to share with people to have a laugh & reflect the time we spent in Facebook... Adapted from the NIV Bible)

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