Saturday, December 5, 2009

Farmville...Crack or Fiction


It's not E-Bay, The World of Spam, Craig's List or the Porn sites my wife has to worry about, It's Farmville !!!! Ask me about my sheep, should not be a common phrase in your marriage, unless of course your a sheep farmer! At least thats what my wife, the self proclaimed Farmville widow has told me.
Just when you thought you had enough to do in your life, Facebook's Farmville grabs you, and the next thing you know your a clod stompin, dirt diggin, goat milkin addict, screaming YEE-Haw at your computer screen!
So heres the cliff notes version of the Farmville World! Farmville is a game application for one of the post popular (for now) internet socializing sites, Facebook. Armed with your mighty hoe and a handful of seeds, you toil and work your mouse, clicking fingers to the bone, building your psudo farm. You harvest and grow a multitude of crops, then comes the livestock , cows,ducks,chickens,horses and sheep among others(except those evil penquins).
I myself have amassed quite the menargery of bovine, equestrian delights, as well as my Farmville friends (or enimies, depending on how you look at it) Thinking I need yet even more sheep (insert sick joke here)I have been farming just about a week now, and I can't stop!
It used to be I would come home, throw Hello at the wife, check the regular mail, the email, the newsfeeds, Myspace and Facebookupdates to see whats been going on in the world at large, as well as whats new in my little chunk of the world. But now, I get home and make the mad dash to my computer, ignoring wife, mail, email and all other "real" matters that require my attention, just so I can harvest my imaginary crops from my imaginary farm before they turn to (yup, you guessed it) imaginary dust from neglect(due to the fact that I have no access to Farmville at work (corporate bastards!) I then plant, milk cows and goats, collect fur and feathers from a virtual cornicopia of psudo animals, including some cats that give yams(don't ask) and pigs that give truffles. I sell them at market and then do it all over again.
 Its slow, its simple and yet Facebook dweebs, dorks and geeks are in a Farmville trance. It has gotten so bad, that its what I think about at work all day, what am I going to plant and how long will it take to grow. In between crops and livestock you can earn cash and experience points by decorating your farm and helping others, by chasing foxes, racoons crows and gophers off their farms. Your in a world all of your own in      Farmville, and between us, I have named all of my sheep! (insert even sicker joke here)
I wish I had a great end to this blog, but I am on level 19 and I have an entire crop of pumpkins that need to be harvested, and then Kerry Ann's farm has gophers to chase off, Lynnie's farm has crows to be chased, Lewis has some weeds to pick and Christin needs help with foxes.
A psudo farmers work is never done !!! Green Acres here I come !!!

P.S. Next up Mafia Wars, Cafe World or maybe Vampire Wars....An addicts life is a full one !!!