Farmville, an online game in which users run their own virtual farm is poised to become the most popular ever application on Facebook. The free game, which allows users to invest in farm equipment and sell their produce for profit, has exploded in popularity since being launched on June 19th.
It owes its popularity to a growing trend among urbanites to try to their hand to the rural life by harvesting vegetables, milking cows, and shearing sheep.
Online farming games have enjoyed a huge growth in popularity in recent weeks, even as the real-life industry is in steady decline.
Facebook, a website which tracks the popularity of applications, has estimated that there are over 72 million farmers on Facebook across a number of farming games.
Farmville’s San Francisco-based developer, Zynga, says that the game provided a simple, fun way for people to unwind at the end of the day.
4 comments:
NICE ARTICLE ABOUT THE GAME....GOOD
good job..
I am not interested in this game ... totally waste of time ... same thing you can do in real life ... just plant a tree in your free time ...This is real farming.
Useful piece of information about knowing rural occupation and industry set up. Through game one can gatter new information related to rural agricultural management.
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