Comments on: Aphonic over Words with Friends

By: toasters

toasters — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:00:22 +0000

I am continuously browsing online for articles that can assist me.
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By: Sarah Reinartz

Sarah Reinartz — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:46:53 +0000

I, too, play Words with Friends and love it. I know a lot of people that use the cheat app in order to play with people that they often lose to. That is something that always bothers me because if you can’t play without a computer telling you what your best move is, then why are you playing at all? I love it because it is challenging and competitive. However, it seems to me that the game is losing its popularity a little bit now as it is harder to find people that want to take the time to play. Although I am guilty of using some of the words that WWF accepts but don’t seem to really be words, it is a little annoying when someone plays something like “Qi” on a triple letter and gets a great score from it! I don’t know if I would say that it hugely impacts vocabulary (for me anyway) because I play words that I am already familiar with, or silly words that aren’t really words anywhere except on WWF. But I suppose if you were playing someone who played a word that you were unfamiliar with, you could look up that word and have grown your vocabulary!

By: Brianna Brownbridge

Brianna Brownbridge — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:50:23 +0000

I commented on this post at a time which seemed like the peak of Words with Friends. I was just curious as to how the game is doing now. Personally, I know myself along with many family members have completely stopped playing the game and moved on to new games such as Draw Something and Bubble Buster. This seems like a trend with the newest technology and its gadgets. They become popular, hit their peak, and then lose popularity.

By: Tegan Pitt

Tegan Pitt — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:41:48 +0000

I was not even aware one could cheat in this game, but of course they can. I feel as if any online game it is so simple to cheat. Scrabble is one of the few games I find myself being overly competitive. Perhaps because my senior English teacher let us play every Friday and we got bonus points for using the vocabulary words which made it much easier to rack up points and learn vocab. I suppose if scrabble can help with ones vocabulary, WWF must be able to as well. When a person cheats though that is when they are cheating themselves of learned words. I love learning new words and being able to play an obscure word is a great feeling!

By: Jim Willis

Jim Willis — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:54:28 +0000

Andrew,
I agree about WWF. I’m using it much less and find there is a natural inclination to back off after awhile when the newness has worn off. When I do use it now, it is more to stay connected with old friends.

By: Yi-Fan (Arthur) Shih

Yi-Fan (Arthur) Shih — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:33:16 +0000

Haha, the WWF makes me confuse in the beginning, but it does make sense now. I have playing this game so many times because I like this game. The main reason makes me start played this game because I want to learn more vocabulary. I feel like I learn so many different words from this games, good words and bad words. It also forces me to learn the words because I do not like to lose the game. The other good thing about this game is that you can have communication with different people, so you can meet with different people and become friends. It can also help us develop my relationship with my friends.

By: Andrew Price

Andrew Price — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:49:41 +0000

In my own experience, I find words with friends to be tedious. It has robbed me of more time than I can account for. I have deleted, re-added, and deleted again a few times, as I have with hanging with friends. Those games simply waste time. I no longer have a high opinion of the games; they have taken too much of a toll on my social and academic life.
That being said, this is a fascinating article. Especially the story about Beth and Georgie’s WWF game. And while that story makes me want to use WWF like I would use webMD, the likelihood of that being the one and only time something useful happening during that game is (by my best estimation) extremely high. Justifying WWF usage by that story is like justifying burning a city down because it keeps some people warm. The two are not necessarily relatable.
I think the WWF phase will pass pretty soon. It’s a waste of time, and as soon as people realize that balancing 10 games based on who can utilize (or guess at) the English language most effectively isn’t fun., they’ll get out of it as quickly as they jumped into it.

By: Jim Willis

Jim Willis — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:44:40 +0000

Brianna, I agree that WWF can help us broaden our vocabulary and that, if we keep the time spent on the game in balance, it’s great!

By: Jim Willis

Jim Willis — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:22:51 +0000

Alisha, thanks for the thoughtful comment. WWF is pretty addictive, albeit enjoyable as a way to spend down time.

By: Jim Willis

Jim Willis — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:31:35 +0000

Balancing our time with all the new phone and computer apps is not easy. That’s for sure!