Facebook Is Making Us Miserable

Link to the article: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/facebook_is_making_us_miserabl.html
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I kinda disagree with this post, I would say people who doesn't have self control would become miserable, which unfortunately, span a large portion of the society.

1. Comparison is not a bad thing, people do it all the time, even without facebook. In high school students compare their grade. Workers compare their salary. Relatives compare their marry-age. It is the people themselves are at fault to wanting to compare. Comparison actually can be good as it drives success, it drives students to study harder for better grade, et cetera.

2. Fragmentation of our time? Seriously? Facebook is just an excuse or tool for those who want to procrastinate, be it during working hour or studying period. Blame these to those who lack self-control.

3. Closeness of friends? Lol, you can just ask your friends out for lunch or dinner. I would say facebook makes it more convenient to connect with friends - msn, skype and other IM softwares are doing the same thing. I simply couldn't relate the closeness of a friend with physical interaction, closeness is between hearts not between bodies. Unless you mean closeness in term of that 'sort' of activities.

Finally, either that the writer is anti-facebook because he is paid to do so, or he felt miserable due to his unfortunate traits, or he is just trying to be 'facemous'. Besides, I am not pro-facebook here, I do agree with the part that we should just quit facebook, and join google+ instead.

Chocobo Tower [SquareEnix]

Recently, SquareEnix (formerly Square Soft, which is the creator of Final Fantasy) comes out with two new games on Facebook, which is a popular social website. One of the game is named Chocobo's Crystal Tower, however, the game is really only facebook game standard, which is disappointing. It is vaguely similar to other pet games, despite the addition of tower exploration and monsters hunting (where players have no control on that part of the game play.

Besides, the computer resources used are considerably high, which suggests an inefficiency of the game programming. Graphics are reasonably well made, albeit there is still a large room for improvement.

As for the game itself, it is simple, you are the owner of a chocobo farm, and you raise them to dispatch the chocobos to towers, in an attempt to prevent monsters from terrorising the human world. Such simple game does not require any deep thinking, and it is probably aimed for kids and/or people who are free and "just bored". Clearly, many players would have attracted to this game because of the title.

Feel free to try the game at the below link.
http://apps.facebook.com/chocobos/

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

Nice game, feel free to try out.