We don`t care about your farm !

Farmville is one of the infamous "50 worst inventions of all time" declared by TIME magazine recently.Well i totally agree with them, farmville is nothing but a waste of time.

I have never been to farmville myself,so while researching about this "farmville" i came to learn some shocking facts like...

-Surveys show that the number of farmville users in US alone outnumbers the number of real farmers to a shocking ratio of 80:1.

-Farmville is a data-mining application which simply means that it has access to all your information and this has been admitted by zynga.

-Farmville seduces users to spend real money on virtual property! Can`t wait to get that red tractor? A credit card is all you need! The design of the game is such that it will lead you to frustration causing the users to spend real money for virtual stuffs.

Do check this news article:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/apr/07/farmville-user-debt-facebook

Farmville is the most widely used application in facebook and has about 60 million users.So how did it get to be so popular? By spamming! People get like around 50-60 farmville JOIN requests with messages like "kumar has sent you a gift,Won`t you like to send him a gift back?" and a "join farmville" button below this message.The user unaware clicks on it and *BANG* gets sucked into it and thinks its cool to pursue virtual farming cause all his friends are doing it.




As if this isn`t agonizing enough,the virtual farmers further continue spamming by publishing each and every activity of theirs on their wall.IF you even masturbate in your farm a message pops-up asking if you would like to share it with your friends that you just jerked-off and encourage them to become your neighbors so as to jerk-off together" and some of the activities are really gay like "Momo found a lost pink cow on their farm. Oh no!
Momo was farming when a sad, pink cow wandered onto their farm in FarmVille." Dude...pink cow??? WTF!
Although the non-farmville users went on to BLOCK farmville updates,these virtual farmers created havoc by spamming about their farm via status messages(cause of which i had to remove some of my friends and class mates)

A large number of virtual Indian farmers(21,000 to be precise) have even went on to sign a petition(fuck this world!!) to introduce an "Indian flag" to their farms(Gandhi would have been proud), so apparently it has become a patriotic issue now.What these people don`t realise is that the more productive time these people waste,the more money ZYNGA company makes cause of advertisement.

The reason for Farmville addiction is same as the reason why Indian women are addicted to saas-bahu serials(They both stttrrreeetttccch things).Now you plant a crop and than you have to harvest it but you can harvest it only after it is ripe and so the user has to keep checking and re-checking his farm till they are ripe else all the crops he has planted will become a waste! So every time you login farmville and plant a crop, you are making a virtual commitment to login back 12 hours later to harvest them.

Farmville is becoming more of an addiction than a timepass game.Of course Farmville is just a fad which will eventually go away(hopefully soon)and people will start to suck into some new fad just like how orkut-addicts left orkut and became facebook-addicts publishing status messages like "orkut sucks" after which they shifted to twitter and started tweeting "facebook sucks". Look around farmers, maybe there are people in real life who need you more than your virtual crops!