Are Facebook games eating up your life?

Nowadays, many people from different places like to use Facebook online. That is a growing trend of the world. Facebook is becoming much and much more popular. Many people love to use Facebook when they get free. There are many different applications and games on Facebook. Facebook users usually use these applications or games while using Facebook. From statistics, there are more than 800 million users on Facebook and 53% of them play games on Facebook. Maybe you are one of the Facebook users who play games on Facebook. Will your ever think that playing Facebook games are time consuming or wasting your time? This survey would go through the question.

Firstly, let’s discuss the reasons of people playing Facebook games. People who play Facebook games usually said that they play Facebook games because they want to be social, to engage, to immerse, etc. The first reason is that most of the popular games on Facebook are easy to learn and easy to play. They are attractive to most of the Facebook users. Once they saw their friends play some new games on Facebook, they will also try to play them. These games can be very addictive and may cause players lose lots of time for working or studying. Players may even need to sacrifice their sleeping time. One of the other reasons is that people do not know how to spend their free time. While they are free, they try to log on Facebook and use different applications or games to consume their time. Playing Facebook games is also a good way for people to spend their time. They may even not know why they play these games, just for consuming the time. They strive for nothing.

The next point is to talk about what are the effects acting on the people who play games on Facebook. Surely, people can get entertained, that is the greatest advantage to human’s life. But there are many negative effects on that, especially on their time. Playing Facebook games is time-consuming and the time will be wasted. This situation occurs especially on the people who get addicted on playing Facebook games. They spend most of their time on it.

Here is the table of top 5 parent companies for January 2010.

Top 5 Parent Companies/Divisions for January 2010 (U.S., Home and Work)
Rank	Parent	Unique Audience(000)	Time Per Person
1	Google	162,536	2:05:19
2	Microsoft	143,893	1:57:58
3	Yahoo!	138,850	2:28:33
4	Facebook	116,329	7:01:41
5	AOC LLC	87,629	2:14:12

From statistics, the average time spent on Facebook per month by each user is 421 minutes, which is about 7 hours. Then by calculations, we can obtain that 927 million hours are spent on Facebook games per month, which is a very large figure. This figure indicates that a large amount of human resources are wasted. If these 927 million hours are spent on other fields, great efforts can be made. Also, some people will devote their money into Facebook games to gain some benefits in games. They used something real to pay something virtual. They spend time to earn money, and they spend more time and the money to buy things virtual. That means they have to pay double cost to exchange these benefits which are not worthy.

To conclude, Facebook games should be eating up our life. But surely, it depends on that how do you play games on Facebook. Whether you can control yourself or manage your time probably can also avoid Facebook games eating up your life. They can entertain you if they is used probably, otherwise they will become drugs. Someone who is fallen into Facebook games before said, the key to keep balance is to let yourself play the games and do not let the games play you. Do not be the next Facebook games’ victim.

References

1. 10 Mind Blowing Facebook Games Statistics : http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-games-statistics-2010-09
2. Facebook Statistics : http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
3. Facebook Users Average 7 hours a Month in January as Digital Universe Expands : http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/facebook-users-average-7-hrs-a-month-in-january-as-digital-universe-expands/
4. Why do people play games on Facebook? : http://playaslife.com/2010/04/08/why-do-people-play-games-on-facebook/
5. How to control your Facebook games addiction? : http://gameolosophy.com/games/how-to-control-your-facebook-games-addiction/