My wife is fighting with someone on Farmville.

[rug]

What the hell is there to fight about on Farmville?

[HopeHoops]

1. I think it is time to organize an intervention.

She doesn't realize it, but she has a serious problem and needs help.

[rug]

2. You're not kidding. And she keeps yelling at me to spell words.

:scared:

[HopeHoops]

3. One of my wife's high school friends (30 years ago) seems to do nothing BUT play Farmville.

She's been married four times and has, shit, I forget how many kids now (many by marriage). She's in the upper-middle class income range and has a really nice house but pretty much all she does is play Farmville. We only know THAT because she's friends with my wife and all the stupid "lost a sheep" type things keep ending up on my wife's wall.

[rug]

4. Yeah, it's a time consumer. We've eaten late because she had to harvest her crops.

[HopeHoops]

5. Waste thee no time! She needs help.

[seabeyond]

6. this thread is so funny. switch funnyfarm with du... there too. thankfully, we have spell check

so i dont have to yell for spelling, but will yell for the right word i want, lol lol. and food, damn, bread is brning but i just... have.... to.... finish,.... this.... post, lol loll.

my kids say at times, that i might ought to step away from the puter for a while

but farmville? clueless.

[HopeHoops]

7. Yeah, DU is addictive as well - but at least it is educational.

[seabeyond]

8. see, you validated my existence. thank you. lol. nt

[HopeHoops]

9. Or maybe NEITHER of us exists. Have your laptop call my laptop and they can do lunch.

[Arugula Latte]

16. I've blocked all the Farmville feeds, and that Mafia thing.

So annoying.

[Ptah]

10. Is she fighting with a neighbor about genetically modified sunflowers?

If so, fight on, Mrs. rug!

:patriot:

[rug]

11. Not sunflowers but, being Veterans Day, it's probably about poppies.

[ccharles000]

18. lol

[woo me with science]

12. I think you can steal each other's crops, for one thing.

Steinbeck knew. Farming is very serious business.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Does it have anything to do with sheep?

If somebody's abusing her sheep, then hell yeah, grab the virtual shotgun!

:hi:

[cherish44]

14. How can you play Farmville all day?

You have to wait for hours for your crops and trees and such to come to harvest. As far as getting gifts..there's no room on my farm for anthing else!

[txwhitedove]

15. Maybe they're Republican? I wouldn't want any Rethugs on my farm.

[zen_bohemian]

17. I see alot of fightin on farm town

people are cut-throat when hired to do plowing and harvesting, it gets ugly when one person hogs all the plots and doesn't share :)

[Bucky]

19. What the fuck is Farmville? I googled Farmville. I read the Wiki page on it. I still don't get it.

It's a game about growing crops, but you play it on Facebook? What the hell?


Bonus two more reasons to hate this game.

Accused scamming

FarmVille had offered users "farm cash" for completing various advertising surveys or signing up for services: for instance, the player would get some virtual currency for signing up for Netflix. However, FarmVille has been accused of scamming its users through misleading offers, such as filling in bogus survey or IQ tests which in fact subscribe the users to an unwanted service which appears on their phone bill or sending them advertisements through email. In a video posted November 9, 2009, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus says "I did every horrible thing in the book too, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar which was like, I don't know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it," in regard to criticism about business practices. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch accused Facebook of allowing Zynga's FarmVille to continue these practices because a great deal of the money it gets from such leads is reinvested in ads inside the Facebook network.


Originality

FarmVille has also been criticized for being "almost an exact duplicate" of its previously released competitor Farm Town.

[rug]

20. I still don't know but she's taken to wearing overalls.