The hypnotic power of a button

The list of Apps of little or no use Beyond wasting time, it is long and practically endless. A few days ago we talked about Ethan, a messaging application whose recipient is the developer of the App and which only serves to ask for his opinion on everything we want. Well, there are even more absurd ones, as is the case of Button Hold.

The objective of this application is none other than to quantify the time that we are able to hold down a button. When you access it, a recreation of a fingerprint appears on the screen, over which you must place your index finger. At that moment, a counter is activated. When you remove your finger, it stops and shows you a history where you can consult the previous marks during the last seven days. Nothing more.

The fun thing about this app is that, after removing your finger, it encourages the challenge thanks to a simple but effective message: “Think that while you have released the button, there is someone else holding it down”. Few phrases are so capable of combining challenge and interpellation to our ego. The record, according to data from the application itself, is an astonishing, and unrealistic, 6 days 23 hours and 59 minutes.

Curious if they organize with it competitions with friends but useless in terms of functionality. An excuse if what you want is waste time, the so-called procrastination, but a danger at work and a candidate to spend the rest of its life on the last screen of our desktop applications, if not to be deleted shortly after downloading it.

Hold the button It is, due to its simplicity and low reward, capable of competing among the most absurd Apps on the markets with notable download successWe don't know if it's because of its absurd nature or if it's because, as the developers themselves admit: It's a stupid game, share it with your friendsIn any case, it has exceeded 50,000 downloads.

We don't know if you're going to share it, or even if you're going to download it. App But, be careful, even though it is absurd, it is certainly a game. addictive.