How did you turn away from an addictive game at Facebook?

I know exactly how the addiction is! I was so addicted to the game called Mafia Wars on facebook that I spent all my time, literally all of my time!! I'd stay up all night, wouldn't have time for nothing, not even for dinner LOL and of course my homeworks haha! Anyway one day I just thought it was enough and no game was worth messing my time table up so I just stopped playing it. It wasn't that hard too haha!

I wonder why people could be addicted to games? What is in those games that make them addicted. I can't be an addict to a game, I swear. You know why? I don't indulge in anything that will just waste my time. Instead of playing facebook game I would rather just post here at myLot so I could earn some money. But you know I've seen so many friends of mine addicted to facebook games and they are even inviting me to join them. Ha!ha!ha! ALL I ever reply is this...."I'm not stupid to waste my time".

I might be a little addictive to one of the games on King.com as I really enjoy destressing with a few games where you shoot down bubbles before going to sleep at night. Sometimes a few games turns into more, especially if I am playing for money and winning for a change.

I use to be addicted to cafe world,but after a while it was taking too long to load so i gave it up.Every day i would be playing because i would not what the food to be spoils. Now am addicted to farmville,which i still play daily but not like before.I use to log in to farmville daily,now i only do that once a day. I turn away from a lot of Facebook games,some are very addictive and take up a lot of times. But now i am busy,so i only play one game and that is farmville I just love farming.

Ha ha! I never got caught up in any "games", but I did get addicted to Super Poke Pets. It's not a game, but you go there to decorate/shop for your pet's habitat, rack up coins by taking care of your and your friends' pets. It was an obsession to get all these coins daily and to create new habitats . . . and hella exciting when new items came out on certain day of the week. It was also sort of a silent contest amongst certain friends - to see who had the coolest habitat. So mindless, eh? I think real life took over and I just could barely get any time online (busy with the kids) - my limited time started to be on earning sites - and I just got on Facebook to see what was up with everyone. No time for the poor Super Poke monkey I had (if you don't spend time with it, flies buzz around your pet - ha ha). So it got neglected. And then they changed the security stuff on Facebook anyway . . . and I didn't want to deal with compromise just for this Super Poke Pet thing (which by then I wasn't hooked on anymore anyway). As you said, I'm totally rehabilitated too - ha ha.

I have never played Facebook games, so I've never gotten addicted to them. I have come close to addiction with Squidoo and Zazzle, and I'm afraid myLot is going to have to be kept under control. I should be doing daily sales reports right now, and here I am on myLot again. I have one unfinished Squidoo lens and one unfinished Hub, and another new one I promised to write on my church reunion. So what am I doing here? I have almost finished responding to all my current notifications, and when I finish, I will make myself do at least ten sales reports before I come back. i'm still alert, so I can't use the excuse that my brain isn't up to sales reports to stay on myLot instead of doing what I need to do for business. I have to save myLot as a reward now for finsihing some other work. Do one thing on my list and then spend some time on MyLot. I hope that will keep me from addiction here.

I had the same problem too before. But one time I fasted for 3 days and part of my fasting was to fast with FB as well. After 3 days of not being able to play I suddenly have lost interest in playing. Besides I had been wasting so much time playing that I ended up playing only in the computer than with my children. Although, I still play some game on the computer but not as much as before. I would rather spend time with my kids now.

the reason why i joined and created an account in facebook is because of its games i've played so many games in facebook like mafia wars, farmville, yoville, petville, empires and allies, sims, etc. i ended up quitting playing those games because of my slow internet connection and also because of my baby but if it weren't for those 2 things, maybe i'm still hooked up in playing those games

i was not on farmville but with other games. yes, i also found out that those games only wasted a lot of my precious time. i really got addicted especially with bejewelled. but i keep myself busy and more active on mylot that made me quit playing games on facebook.

I haven't been totally addicted to facebook games. There was a time that I was hooked with Pet Society and Farm Town, but these lasted just for weeks. Pet society lasted for a few months, but I got bored easy. I stay addicted for a few days and then just quit. I haven't had a long-time addiction to games. I get addicted for a short period only. I just know when to stop when I'm satiated already. I guess getting bored easy has its perks

Same here, I've been playing farmville before but I was really get addicted on playing CAFE WORLD. I've been playing the game since I've started my Facebook account. For the record I am in level 252 already, until last July 2011 that I decided to stop playing any game on Facebook anymore. I am glad that I've decided to stop that game and focus on more serious on line job that I could be proud of someday.

Me too! I was being an addict in playing with Mafia Wars before. Also with typing maniac and Restaurant City. It consumes most of my time back then. Good thing that I was just reviewing for the board exam back then and already graduated when I became an addict. It suits up my bum days. I was an addict of it that I even set my alarms just to be able to get the timing of the refresh of the energy and stamina of my Mafia Wars account. I really don't know how I stopped playing it. Maybe I just outgrown those games that I suddenly stopped playing and eventually things get busier in my life. I guess I was just addicted to it since I got nothing else to do back then.

Personally I dislike any Zynga game. I've played a few facebook games, and the only one that got me slightly addicted was Backyard Monsters. Its an ok game, but when you have a lvl 2 maproom and theres no players in your range, it get boring.

Just ask yourself this question, does it benefit you at the end of the day. Thats how i quit

I only play bejeweled blitz on facebook. Everyday I do play but not for hours and hours....I only want to beat my ex husband's score....soon as I pass him up I quit...sometimes before! LOL....strange right?

For me I'm not the one addicted in it because I don't have the account in Facebook I don't want many person would know me more.

i was addicted to mousehunt! but i eventually quit as it got boring and the stuff which i do on mousehunt became rather repetitive and got boring. What followed was that the time spent on it began to decrease more and more. however, it took me a year for this addiction to totally dissipate. It was hard, i tried to quit many times, but all ended up in failure. Knowing addiction, it is hard to release wants you have gotten it. It began pulling down my results and so i knew i had to do something about it. That was when i knew this had to stop. But ironically, it still ended up in failure. so i only stopped when the game got boring enough for me to let go of it. Thank god. I really agree it is very hard to let go of an addiction, but i am so grateful that i have finally let loose of it. lol :D

I was addicted to Mafia Wars, so addicted that I used to be logged in to facebook almost the whole day I was at home. My job does not allow me to log in to the internet, so I would go on the internet kiosk and log in to play that game. I was so addicted that I had 5 facebook accounts just to get more weapons and transfer them all to my main account. The spare time that I had waiting for the energy to fill up, I would be on a Mafia wars community page trading with other mafia clans and members who would be online almost every time I Logged it. The addiction was so much that my frends would call me a mafia guys and would find me online everytime each of them logged in. I had to give up the addiction and so after trying for almost months, I finally succeeded. Even though I still addicted to facebook I am very happy that I quit Mafia Wars.

For facebook game i was an addict in ninja saga before. Of course I spend around 6-8 hours a day before just to increase my level and not to be left behind. i want my character to be the best has he is compare to other players. I also use the PVP feature something like that to battle online players in other country randomly. Then later when many cheats/ cheat engine were available I find it boring because many players are cheating just to win and then I stopped playing it. More recently I was an addict in travian (it's not a facebook app) it's actually an online browser game. I even spend around 16 hours sometimes. Travian is very addicting game and challenging because you cheat on it. Now I no longer play online games.

I was never addicted to facebook games but I can understand where you are coming from. I used to play them but to be frankly honest, they became boring to me and I stopped. Unfortunately, the people I used to play with keep sending me things from these games on my facebook wall.