I find it hilarious that I log into Facebook day after day to play silly little games - Farm Town, FarmVille, YoVille, PetVille, Cafe World, Island Paradise, Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, Sorority Life, Super Farkle, Mahjongg Dimensions, Country Life, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. I'm sure there are many more games I am forgetting about that I play on Facebook that I log into each day just to play them.
What's even more hilarious is that I'm not alone. I've read online more than once about people who are so worried about their games that they ask friends and family members to log into their Facebook accounts and check the games when they can't be there. As in, I can't be here to log into Facebook and harvest my crops on FarmVille, so I ask BFL to log into my Facebook account and check my farm for me.
The biggest problem I have with this is that the games are making it more and more "multi-player" dependent. FarmVille for example, has co-op farming now. While this is great - several friends join the same job and seed/harvest crops to get a prize, it can also be a bad thing for those who are so into it that they've forgotten it is just a game. This was very apparent when someone left a message on my wall that said "Please harvest your crops for the co-op so we can all move on. Thanks." Apparently this person felt that if they put "please" in front and "thanks" at the end that it wouldn't be considered rude.
Unfortunately for that person it earned them being deleted from my friends, my neighbors, and being blocked. And guess what? When I told other friends about it (not giving out the person's name of course), they all agreed that was a very rude thing to do. So at least I wasn't the only one who thought it was rude and that people need to back off. :/
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Posted by: Clifford Ferguson | 05/10/2010 at 05:04 AM