By: Lauren Pace
Normally, I’m not the kind of person that takes part in Facebook applications. However, when the buzz started about the newest app called Farmville, I was curious as to what it was. After watching a friend play it, I saw absolutely no point to the game. Keeping up with a virtual farm by harvesting virtual crops, animals, and trees? No fun there. After ignoring request after request for me to join Farmville, I got really annoyed with how everyone seemed to be obsessed with this senseless game. I told myself, along with everyone else, that I would never fall into participating. Who started the Farmville world in Oak Grove?
I decided that I would try to start an application frenzy myself. So, I chose the Happy Aquarium application which consisted of feeding and training fish while cleaning their tank. I wasn’t entertained at all and no one caught on to it like I had hoped. After a while, I finally decided to get a Farmville to try and experience it for myself. It’s wrong to judge something before you’ve actually tried it, right?
I can now say that I only check my Facebook account to get on Farmville. I check it religiously at around 10:30 p.m. to harvest my crops, animals, and trees. I caught on to the rhythm of the game and I passed level after level like it was no one’s business. I started sending all my neighbors gifts and helping with their farms.
Farmville is not just a game though, it also teaches responsibility. If you don’t harvest crops soon after they are ready to harvest, they wilt and you earn absolutely no profit. It’s rewarding to gain experience points and coins. It also teaches me how to manage money and how to be a good neighbor.
Farmville fanatics also strive to get ribbons. There are many ribbons that you can achieve and you gain experience and coins each time you get one. From being a “pack rat” to harvesting trees, there is a ribbon for almost everything. Some ribbons are more difficult than others, however. Like the Flower Power ribbon, for example. You have to harvest 25,000 flowers to get the blue ribbon.
Ever since I started Farmville, people have been criticizing me with rude comments. I understand completely. They probably just don’t see a point to the game. They were just like I was before I actually tried it. So, I ask all of you to at least try the game before you judge it. If you’ve tried it and you didn’t like it, props to you for at least attempting to get into it. But the others who hate on it without trying, give us Farmville addicts a break will you? Farmville is merely what we like to do in our free time.
