By Francis Anthony Govia
From here in Forest Hills, I have developed a reputation for being addicted to Facebook. Yet I have only been a member of Facebook for approximately three weeks. My nephew in Canada called my sister recently and told her, “Uncle is always on Facebook.” My sister called my first love and admonished me to her, and she told me. If I am always on Facebook, it must be that I have too much idle time these days, and that time has not been put to better use blogging, or doing other things more meaningful to my relatives.
I may not be the customary user of Facebook. Of the 254 friends that I have on that medium only 8.2 percent are people I have actually met. The rest are people who I became drawn to via Mafia Wars, a game that pits your wits and skills against people from all over the world who like the shoot them up (take all their money while you build the largest crime family) action. I have always been interested in strategy, and that is really what draws me to Mafia Wars. There are very few things as interesting to me as the opportunity to build an infrastructure that allows me to compete against someone or something much larger than that which I have, and succeed.
It is also because of Facebook, that I received two emails from people who live overseas who told me that they became interested in me because of my profile, and that I am now being offered large sums of money to do God’s work (which I am indeed interested in doing), and with regard to the second offer, to rescue a beautiful young lady out of a refuge camp in Senegal. Who would not want to be a modern day version of a knight in shining armor and rescue a lady in distress?
I have decided to let my nephew sneer at my adventures all he wants, and appear indifferent to my older sister too often willingness to address me through others. I am going to become like my fellow blogger, Claude Scales, and remain self absorbed until others become so frustrated that they take to drinking. After all, I hardly ever lecture my family (or other people for that matter) about their interests.
If you are ever on Facebook and decide to look me up, the best way of saying hello is to join my Mafia Family, that is, before I become captivated by other interests like the birds and the bees.
Yellowstone Boulevard
