OMG Durova has lost her mind!!!!!!!, She plays Zoo World on Facebook ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT!!! Options

[Obesity]

I confess I have no idea if Durova still participates in WP, Commons and other Wikimedia projects. I don't really hang around those places anymore.

But I am on Facebook a lot, where Durova is one of my finest friends.

She is playing that pointless Zoo World game MORNING, NOON and NIGHT and assailing her friends with arcane and meaningless status updates.

Today almost every one of my friend updates was from Durova, and EVERY ONE of Durova's updates was about ZOO WORLD:

Lise just trained her Bald Eagle to do the "Play dead" trick!
Now she can attract even more visitors to her zoo!

Lise is racing a Gyrfalcon and needs your help!
Lise needs your help to win! Everyone shares speed prizes and gains mastery. Only 20 more miles to go!

Lise has speed stones to share!
Lise's bald eagle, Samantha, just beat Cassia in a race and collected a new speed stone. Some things are best when shared with friends.

LOL, "speed stones". sound liek crystal meth. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Lise is away and their new baby American Alligator needs food. Oh my!
Lise's American Alligator was born just 9 hours ago. She is cold, lonely, and will get sick soon without any food. Baby wants to grow up big and strong some day and just needs a little help getting started.

Lise has a baby Gorilla separated from its mother. Oh My!
Lise just received a Mom and Baby Gorilla from the Wildlife Care Network.

Lise is away and their new baby Great-Horned Owl needs food. Oh my!
Lise's Great-Horned Owl was born just 25 hours ago. She is cold, lonely, and will get sick soon without any food. Baby wants to grow up big and strong some day and just needs a little help getting started.

Hm. Well it's kind of loading but buggy. [Here Durova comments about how her Zoo World game is not loading properly]

Zoo World irony: my Facebook portrait was taken at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. [Durova makes a half-hearted attempt to correlate her Zoo World madness with external reality]

These were all from the past 24 hours.

DUROVA'S GONE ZOO WORLD CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wut does this have to do with a deep critique of the Web 2.0?

ummmm, well maybe some1 could say something abt how playing zoo world may be pointless, but at least it doesnt harm anyone liek Wikipeeeeeeedia.

ok thx.

This post has been edited by Obesity: Fri 2nd April 2010, 2:31am

[GlassBeadGame]

No way this goes into the Annex.

[Obesity]

you mean, like: No way, buster. This is going straight to the Annex.

or do you mean:

No way is THIS thread going to the annex. It's too damned AWESOME for that cesspool.

[GlassBeadGame]

you mean, like: No way, buster. This is going straight to the Annex.

or do you mean:

No way is THIS thread going to the annex. It's too damned AWESOME for that cesspool.

The second one. Sorry for the ambiguity.

[Ottava]

This is why I try not to accept Wikipedian's friend invites. Chances are, I end up blocking their feed.

[Milton Roe]

These were all from the past 24 hours.

DUROVA'S GONE ZOO WORLD CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wut does this have to do with a deep critique of the Web 2.0?

ummmm, well maybe some1 could say something abt how playing zoo world may be pointless, but at least it doesnt harm anyone liek Wikipeeeeeeedia.

ok thx.

Ummm. This is a bio-clock syndrome in women of a certain age, ya know. Known treatments are to adopt a pair of small dogs and half a dozen cats. Or two children from Haiti.

The electronic version appears unholy and unwholesome, but it might be better than nothing.

[Ottava]

Or two children from Haiti.

According to the news, the in thing now is to just steal the kids and not worry about all of that messy adoption crap.

[BelovedFox]

This is why I try not to accept Wikipedian's friend invites. Chances are, I end up blocking their feed.

I've still got Sceptre's friend request mouldering in my notifications bar. I'm surprised he managed to pick the correct person (there's a hell of a lot of people with my name on there.) Other than that, I'm wiki-free.

[Wiki Witch of the West]

Blah. The only thing lamer than playing Zoo World is starting a thread just to talk about somebody playing Zoo World. Four million people play Zoo World.

Start a website called Zoo World Review and wallow in your lameness.

[GlassBeadGame]

Blah. The only thing lamer than playing Zoo World is starting a thread just to talk about somebody playing Zoo World. Four million people play Zoo World.

Start a website called Zoo World Review and wallow in your lameness.

Got bored with content creation?

[Wiki Witch of the West]

Blah. The only thing lamer than playing Zoo World is starting a thread just to talk about somebody playing Zoo World. Four million people play Zoo World.

Start a website called Zoo World Review and wallow in your lameness.

Got bored with content creation?

Two DYKs this week. They're on my page (Wikipedia talk, not Facebook).

Somey, did this website suddenly turn into Facebook Review?

[NuclearWarfare]

Blah. The only thing lamer than playing Zoo World is starting a thread just to talk about somebody playing Zoo World. Four million people play Zoo World.

Start a website called Zoo World Review and wallow in your lameness.

I thought it was Farmville that was all the rage? Or was that 6 months ago?

They are all hidden from my news feed anyway (as they should be for everyone), so I can never keep track.

[dtobias]

Fortunately you can block particular applications, and I've blocked most of the silly games that would otherwise flood my update page.

[Wiki Witch of the West]

Fortunately you can block particular applications, and I've blocked most of the silly games that would otherwise flood my update page.

*snaps fingers* and there I was about to join Farmville and Mafia Wars just to check in on this thread and watch Obesity's head explode.

Seriously, this stuff takes so little time or mental energy. Keep a window open. Click a few buttons to keep the game alive. Approve a canned message.

Now I'm saving a humpback whale. Let's see what sort of sophomoric pun that generates.

[Zoloft]

Fortunately you can block particular applications, and I've blocked most of the silly games that would otherwise flood my update page.

*snaps fingers* and there I was about to join Farmville and Mafia Wars just to check in on this thread and watch Obesity's head explode.

Seriously, this stuff takes so little time or mental energy. Keep a window open. Click a few buttons to keep the game alive. Approve a canned message.

Now I'm saving a humpback whale. Let's see what sort of sophomoric pun that generates.

"Lise just trained her Bald Eagle to do the "Play dead" trick! Now she can attract even more visitors to her zoo!"
Honest to God, I believe the people who write these notifications are not even pretending to hide the double-entendres any more.

[Cla68]

I haven't started a Facebook or MySpace account in spite of the almost daily email invites I receive to do so. Looks like I'm really missing out.

[EricBarbour]

Start a website called Zoo World Review and wallow in your lameness.

We'd rather wallow in your lameness, hon.

Yours is far more intense than any of ours.

[Wiki Witch of the West]

Gee, if I knew it'd cause this much stir over here I wouldn't have stopped playing Facebook games for a year.

For what it's worth, here's an idea to kick around. Know how a portion of Facebook friends aren't real friends? Suppose you ran two facebook accounts and farmed the non-friend friends over to the second account. Then enjoyed all the really spammy features of Facebook on the jerk account.

Join a cause, invite all your friends? Suuuure.

This post has been edited by Wiki Witch of the West: Fri 2nd April 2010, 5:16am

[The Joy]

[the fieryangel]

You know, you can turn those notifications off so you don't have to look at them. That's what I do.

What's the big deal here?