WTF Is FarmVille?
I won’t do much by way of introduction here, since everybody on Facebook has surely seen those curious “Farmville” updates, and anyone not on Facebook is likely too smart to have clicked on an article including the word “Farmville” in its title.
And even though that title suggests an answer herein, I’m not actually able to tell you what the f*ck “Farmville” is – even after a visit to the usually-illuminating Wikipedia, which itself can only explain Farmville thusly:
FarmVille is a real-time farm simulation game developed by Zynga, available as an application on the social networking website Facebook. The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and livestock. Since its launch in June 2009, FarmVille has become the most popular game application on Facebook with 63.7 million active users on November 9th, 2009.
Well, apart from the chic correct spelling of the word (check that capital “V” stuck right there in the middle), from Wiki we learn absolutely nothing about FarmVille.
Apparently, though, “planting, growing, and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and livestock” is fun as all get-out … 64 million people can’t be wrong, right?
Anyway, I for one would still like to know: WTF is FarmVille?
Surely there’s a member of the vast FITS audience – an intrepid bunch, indeed – who can clarify.
In exchange, and in keeping with the Facebook theme of all this, I’ll “friend” whoever can deliver a straight answer – a worthy inventive if ever there was one.
Comments
By RP on November 24th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
It’s an activity to pass the time between “work projects”. You know, something to fill in when you’ve tired of tetris and solitaire. It makes one more productive at work and helps build hand-eye coordination.
Something like that …. I could be wrong.
By Rufus Pinochle on November 24th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
It’s both a dessert topping and a floor wax. If you can’t actually live the philosophies you espouse, at least you can pretend to by pretend growing some pretend crops and reaping the pretend rewards of your pretend productivity. Then you can go home and…ewww…reality sucks!
By Liberty For Me on November 24th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
My kids are going nuts with this….it is so stupid..you could be so productive and make actual money with the time wasted
By b on November 24th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
BEWARE!! I have a friend whose bank account was raided by “Zynga” via facebook. Farmville sounds to me more like “Fraudville”!
By EM on November 24th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Its like Mob Wars…when you notice these things on your wall from Friends, there is a way to hide it so you don’t know what they are doing. You don’t have to hide the friend just the farm/mob or other annoying things they are doing on facebook.
By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' on November 24th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
http://www.clemson.edu/
By sage old bird on November 24th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
I believe I heard something about playing games and doing quizzes on Facebook, such as Farmville, allows sources to pull your profile off of Facebook for other purposes.
Fact or Fiction?
By Steve on November 24th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Sic,
You could start “Doofusville” on the FITS site and make a fortune. For a small fee the viewers could be the Senator or Representative of their choice and we could all see what terrible virtual decisions we could make together. The winner gets to hike the Appalachian Trail as Governor of Doofusville. SC’s very own fantasy legislative league! I am not sure how you would work in the B&CB and the constitutional officers but feel free to take the idea and run with it.
By Mande Wilkes on November 24th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
NSJS -
Rock on!
-Mande
By $$$$ on November 25th, 2009 at 6:30 am
The creators of Farmville are making an absolute killing on CPM advertising. Figure they get 50,000,000 ad impressions per day (not unique users), divide by 1000 for CPM, and are making $1.00 per 1000 views. That’s $50,000 per DAY they bring in.
By PasserBy on November 25th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Mande:
Much as I’d dearly like to win the ‘prize’ you offered, I have no clue about Farmville. It doesn’t even sound interesting enough to try and figure it out, honestly.
By TeqNine on November 25th, 2009 at 10:41 am
So telling you it “.. allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and livestock.” is not clear enough? What part of that is difficult to understand? Now if you asked WHY TF FarmVille, now that would make sense. But it’s obvious you and Wikipedia answered your question very clearly.
By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' on November 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Thanks, Mande! I look forward to your Facebook “friending!”
By Austino the Magnificent! (tm) (patent pending) on November 25th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I’ve got a friend who is so old she had to have a job for six months, which in my book is ooooooooooold. it was like, some, life experience thing, before she got on with her real life. I would perpetually see the farmville things on her FB account. Now – this is a COOL girl with amazing interests and friends and talents – the only possible reason for her to do that – a lot – is she was slowly (or quickly) losing her little mind in her office. It was even a cool office. It was just that it was…an office. She just msg’d me saying she would never enter an office again, even for an apendectomy – no office of any sort. she’d rather have her gut explode. honest.
By A DORMAN on December 6th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Hell yeah to not sayin, just sayin!