Been thinking about doing it for awhile and I finally pulled the trigger. You can say that any game is a waste of time, but none quite like Mafia Wars. It’s a spread sheet with graphics and the “gameplay” feature of bothering other people to send you useless objects so you can keep running on a treadmill. It never ends. They just add another section, add more hoops to jump through that require you to bug other people to try and finish.

It turns into a habit, doesn’t matter if you’re having fun anymore. So I gave it up. Unfriended all the people that were there solely as Mafia members, now I have regained a functional Wall again. It was stupid actually, 90% of of friend updates were Mafia War requests, I had to actually browse to see anything from someone I actually cared about.

So cold turkey. Removed all those mob friends, blocked the application completely and deleted the Zynga toolbar. Feels good actually. It’s a healthy feeling.