Facebook Activism Confusion

A quick overview of this blog will reveal all sorts of gadgets. You see them: My picture, the Feedjit Live Traffic dealy, etc. There's also one on there which informs you that I am also on Facebook and what my current "status update" is.

I love Facebook! It allows me to be connected to people I've lost track of, and stay connected to people I haven't lost track of. I even like most of the applications available to you, the Facebook user. Many of them, while not completely necessary to human existence, are just fun little ways to break up the day. After all, isn't that what this is all about? Isn't that what Habakkuk's Complaint is designed to do: stave off boredom for a couple minutes? That what the header says.

But there's a couple applications I just don't get. One is a little garden. the other is a little blue cove. For the uninitiated, people send each other little plants and animals (or caricatures of said plants and animals)in order to place them in a fictional garden or aquarium. That's fine. I get that part.

Here's where my confusion kicks in. Somehow these are supposed to help in the fight against global warming or other causes. I am not sure how this works. I am all for legal types of civilian activism. But this doesn't seem to do anything. How does my putting a fake plant in a virtual garden help alleviate global warming?

I agree it's fun and inane. I'm just confused as to how that's supposed to help.