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Facebook users fight back against new Facebook applications
Starting to get annoyed with all the requests to add this or that useless Facebook application? You're not alone. Groups of users are popping up all over to protest the slow drift towards Myspace-uselessness land that Facebook has begun since opening its platform to every Tom, Dick and Harry. Inside Facebook writes, "this counter-platform movement is certainly not going to have any long-lasting traction" although we're not so sure. Facebook was once a place of refuge from the assault and battery on your eyeballs that is Myspace, but increasingly that safe place is becoming more and more like its most loved and despised competitor.
All we know is, the next person to "Super Poke" us is getting it back, right in the eye.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
