For those of you who go on facebook alot, perhaps you are aware of the very popular zynga application Farmville. Farmville is an application that allows one to create their own farm, from choosing what size they want it to be, to what colour fences they want. There are a variety of crops and trees to plants, as well as many different animals to herd. The main objective of the game is to get to the maximum level, which is level 70.
There are two different values of money that can be used on this game, farm coins and farm cash. Farm coins are very easy to earn, and it is what you obtain whenever you harvest a crop, help out a neighbour etc. Farm coins on the other hand are a little more difficult to get. As you go on with your game, and plant more crops and get to higher levels you will gain more farm coins. Certain things you do on Farmville will get you a ribbon or a prize, which will usually be a reward of some type.
People on farmville also have their obligations. In order to succeed on farmville you must grow many crops, and pass all the levels. The crops, however, have different times they are ready to be harvested at. Strawberries will take as little as 4 hrs. while cotton takes as longs as 3 days. As you may have already observed, this game has been designed to keep you coming back, because you are forced to come back within the day or week or something depending on what you have planted so you can harvest your crops.
You can see now how this can be extremely addicting. I used to be one of those people who disregarded all the farmville invites, gifts and so on thinking it was juvenile and a complete waste of time, but later on I had my own farm, and I was quite enjoying it.
Next thing you know I am worried about my strawberries!! I think I actually stressed out my parents because I wanted to get home so I could harvest my strawberries so they wouldn't wither...see what this does to you?
I recently checked out a website : farmvillesecrets.com and there was a video about this master farmville guy who had what he claimed the BEST FARM EVER. He started boasting in his video about how he had the "million dollar villa" and several awards in farming. I really badly wanted to tell him that it really doesn't help him at all at life.
So I was trying to think about the pro's and cons of going on farmville....let's think
Pros: ...why am i having trouble with this???
Cons: learn nothing about actual farming, ruin eyesight, become less social, become obsessed about non-existent strawberries..
So there you have it. Farmville is an addicton. Sure, it's ok to have fun on it once in a while, but don't let it control your life! My cousin recently got mad at me for not harvesting her blueberries properly...
Oh and to all those people who are so very annoyed by the constant gifts and requests such as "so and so sent you a cow!" or "yee haw, join me on the farm!" there's a disable button :P
