Farmville Addiction!!!

[tantrumbean]

I vowed that I would never press that Farmville button on facebook, but after a lot of pestering from my manager at work (she wore me down after a few 10 hour night shifts with just the 2 of us in the office), I finally gave in about two weeks ago and pressed the evil thing! Now I'm addicted - I know it's a totally stupid game, but it does suck you in (well, it did me anyway!) and now my partner has fallen into the farmville trap as well - we seem to have rather endless discussions about which crops to plant, how to hatch more magic eggs and who to recruit as a neighbour! I am so sad and I know it!!!! Must grow out of this!!!!

Anybody else play Farmville? Always on the lookout for new neighbours!

[papaver]

i always push the ignore button for those requests.

[tantrumbean]

Keep on pressing ignore - it's lethal!!!

[MommyBird]

I ignore invites as well.
I also refuse to take the "Find out what kind of ....... you are" tests.

Maybe it is time for you to find that non-Farmville village and move off the farm.
You cannot possibly have time to ride, work, post on TE and build your little rural empire! Something has got to go.

[Crankin]

I don't get it. I have extremely intelligent friends who are spending all of their time doing this.
I ignore everything on Facebook and rarely post anything. I read what others write, mostly to keep up with my friends in other places.
Of course, I don't play any kind of games, whether it's on the computer or board games, or cards. I can't sit long enough and also apparently my brain doesn't work in ways that allow me to strategize in games.

[lph]

I get it. I don't "do" Farmville, but my son does, and it annoys me because from the outside it looks like a really dumb game if you'll forgive my saying so. But I shouldn't talk, because I was the one with a massive Suduko addiction a few years back, I've sat up all night playing Tomb Raider because I just couldn't stop, and I can get hooked trying to figure out how some puzzle works just because I can't let it go. I'll play scrabble or Carcassonne and be much happier if I can fill all the gaps rather than win.

I think my son and I have the same mildly addictive personality. Which is probably why his silly addictions irritate me, come to think of it.

[Blueberry]

Gonna keep pressing the "ignore" button. I pop on facebook once in a while to see how folks are doing, but have managed to avoid the must-log-on-10-times-per-hour addiction many people have. I even uninstalled it from my blackberry.

Now, if only I could exercise the same restraint on TE and with Ravelry

[tantrumbean]

Oh well, at least I managed to assemble my new ickle bike while waiting for my blueberries to ripen!

[sfa]

For me, it's Farm Town rather than Farmville (pretty much the same game, but with fewer bells and whistles). I studiously ignored these sorts of games for six months or so, but then my sisters dragged me in. Fortunately, shortly after I realized that I really cared far too much when I wasn't able to harvest my cabbages on time, my daughter discovered the game and now SHE takes care of the farm. It's a perfect game for a ten year old--a little bit of strategic planning, a little bit of learning about simple business, some responsibility (and the attendent slight guilt when you don't get those cabbages on time), and a bunch of cute animals.

And since getting addicted and then weaning myself, I have assiduously avoided all other requests to start playing Mafia Wars, YoVille, Castle Age, Bejeweled Blitz, Cafe World (or whatever the name is), etc.

Sarah

[Karma007]

I play, at least a daily check in. It's addictive and highly stupid. (Runs to fertilize neighbor's crops...)

[ny biker]

Beware of scams.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fas...criticize.html

[GLC1968]

I too have a mildly addictive personality, so I've purposely ignored all those requests. Couple that with a type-A personality and I'd be online all night trying to 'get' everything or be the 'best' at whatever it is... I don't do video games either.

Besides, every time I get a Farmville request, it reminds me that I should go outside and spend some time in my real garden or with my real goats! I don't need online/virtual guilt too!

[ASammy1]

I only play Bejeweled Blitz...

[alpinerabbit]

a) my brain is capable of blacking / whiting out the ad stack on the right hand side

b) it gets kinda old and slow beyond lvl25.



now why haven't I got a wild turkdey yet ??!!

[uforgot]

I had a friend try to get me to play farmville. I told him that I'm living it every day. Horses on the right, cattle on the left and big pickups everywhere. Not interested in any more of it.