I’m addicted.
I’ve been playing on the app Trivia Crack for two days, and I can’t get enough. When my friend first told me about the game, I laughed at the name. “Crack.” How funny. It was more accurate than I realized. The game may not be an illicit drug, but it sure is addicting. The app, also an online game, allows you to find your Facebook friends and challenge them to rounds of trivia. They can respond at any time throughout the day to answer a question. This addiction is apparently not only my problem. Trivia Crack has been the No. 1 free-app download in America for the past month, beating out other popular apps such as Instagram and Facebook Messenger, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
So we’re all doomed to spend the next month staring at our phones and versing one another in trivia.
And then, we’ll all forget about it.
We forget about a lot of things actually. I mean, whatever happened to these guys?
The Ice Bucket Challenge. In August, if you weren’t dumping ice over your head or donating a fortune to the ALS Association, people thought you were heartless. Now if you dump a bucket of ice over your head, you might get some strange looks.
Flappy bird. OK, yes, this app got pulled from the app store. But how can we forget the countless people who spent innumerable hours tapping a screen? And then the gut-wrenching moans when the bird hit the pole? On second thought, maybe it’s better this game died. At least Trivia Crack is sharpening our brains a bit.
Instant messenger. Ten years ago, we didn’t text. We logged on to our computers and talked with funny screen names like catdogfishbird123. I guess social media added in messaging and took the market right away from those chat rooms. Apparently they’re still around, but since when have you used them to talk to your friends? Rest in peace, AIM.
