Two days ago I received DM on twitter from one of my followers to join their Mafia family. I have seen this application over facebook and it seemed interesting. When second person DM me over twitter that I should join their “mafia family” I actually went and joined. Game itself is very lame. You click to do job, click to get respect points, but there is nothing interactive really. After 10 min playing, I returned back to work.

I was very, very surprised that I started to get DM and replies from my followers that everything I did on game was posted on my twitter feed. I was spamming all my followers with posts like :

“@gita_m has just done a job in Drug Deal in #MobsterWorld http://bit.ly/A9N4Yabout 20 hours ago from Mobster World”

And this feed was really, really long… So then I decided not to play this game any more.

Today I received DM from few people saying that this Mobster World is direct messaging all my contacts and asking them to join my Mafia family. I went into MobsterWorld again and there wasn’t anything telling me how can I stop it. Even “Contact Us” lead to the gmail e-mail that got no response.

Finally with help from my twitter fellows (special thanks to @brenstrong @antgalvin) I found that in Settings > Connections tab you can “Revoke” application access to my account. Thanks god its gone for good! Now I should do the same on facebook as I did accepted some gifts from friend of mine there and it might be spamming my friends

So the bottom line:

Please ignore all DM I sent to you and don’t play this game! You gonna loose all your followers.

If you see anyone else “playing” this game then tell them its not worth it.

The weather is getting pretty cold and it’s not like we can play outside much anymore. So I did some research over internet, what can I do with my kid indoors.

She is 5 so not too big and not too small. Currently when I’m busy she plays computer games, but it’s not the thing I wish her to do all weekends.

I found few games over net I probably should buy:
– Carrom (Indian game with moving discs. Haven’t seen it, but sounds fun)
– Ludo (I played similar game when I was small. It always made me sleepy)
– Bingo (when I was small it was called Lotto. Good for kid to remember numbers)
– Twister (haven’t played it, have heard of it, I want it)
– Tower (you build tower from small wooden blocks and try to pull out without breaking tower. Should find where I put it)
– Cards (I used to play sooo much card games when I was small. Have to ask my mom send over card game book)
– Uno (also card game, but it is simple and fun for kids)
– Lego (which kid doesn’t like it? I haven’t bought much Lego for my daughter, but probably should cause she loves building houses from everything else)

And few more ideas for myself to remember:
– Music lessons. My family loves singing and I know a lot of traditional English and Latvian songs.
– Cooking lessons. It’s always fun.
– Geography lessons. Spend one day related to one country. E.g. read about Italy, go to Italian restaurant, play Italian games etc.
– Exercise. I was thinking about buying Wii, but then I have to buy Tv as well (yep, don’t have any). Maybe then just switch on music and dance?
– Games like “Can you be a … snake …?” and let kid to do it.

And in worst case scenario I will allow her to play games. Currently she plays NeoPets and Nickelodeon. They both has a lot of fun and educating games.

If we get out of the house to some indoor activities, I would want to go to following:
– LeisurePlex. There is 3 of them in Dublin, however I find them very loud and tiring.
– E.N.R.G. – haven’t been there that’s why I want to see it. Seems big enough for few hours fun.
– National Aquatic Centre is quite a far from our house, but it is a great place for full day fun.
- The Ark – also haven’t been there, that’s why I want to go there
– Imaginosity is close to our house and it is great for kids.

And there are few more places, that I’m not interested at the moment, but you can take a look.