I have been on facebook for about a year now… I joined facebook, at my husband’s urging, you have probably heard the the conversation it goes like this…
Honey, you will like this facebook thing, you can keep in touch with friends, find old friends, communicate with others, keep in touch, and see what everyone is up to..its great, try it ……So I tried facebook, and I do have fun, I have several people that I razz and others that I reach out to every so often to just say hi…It has replaced email for me in most cases….you can even IM people who are on facebook…However here is my demon….A very nice lady from church sent me an invite to Farmville, now I had several other invites in the past and just turned it down, I was not interested, however I felt obligated when the person from church sent the invite…I don’t usually get swayed that way, just because the church lady is doing means I have to do it…but I decided to accept….
Here is where the demon comes in ….once you join you have to go to your farm daily and plow and plant and harvest, and then take care of the animals, then you have to have a place for the animals, then you of course have to have a place for your imaginary farm person to live… And as you acquire things the more work you have to do…..So for those of you who play farmville let me tell you where I stand : I am at level 33, I own 3 cottages,1 farmhouse, 1 estate, 1 barn, 1 chicken coop, 2 dairy farms, 3 silo, and horse barn, and a nursey barn for the foals, a Maison(I don’t even know what that is, but I have one), 8 sheep, 16 goat, 9 bulls, 62 chicken, 35 cows, 18 baby cows, 6 deer, 6 rabbit, 2 turkeys, 5 penquins, 2 dogs, 5 cats, 1 turtle, 1 goose, 2 swans, 15 ducks, and a fruit stand, a flower stand,1 tractor, 1 harvester, and many other small things….so after taking care of everything you have on your farm, you then go and visit your friends farms to gain xtra points and to find special goodies….All of this of course takes time and you are also scanning your friends post to see if they are giving away goodies for your farm like gas and animals, and points…all of this is very time consuming…I have over 30 neighbors…
So to get back to my reason for this post…1st the person that invited me does not even play…..2nd my husband who said facebook would be fun, had no idea what he was starting….and last, all of the nice things I have on my site, and how I have it layed out is like a real farm, it can get kinda depressing….like is there anyway I can live in farmville, things just seem so much easier there. You need food click on it, you need things harvested click on it….If only real life could be more like farmville….