19 May 2010
by Ubiquityin Facebook, Pain in the asses, Reality bites Tags: Facebook, FarmVille, muses
I’m not gonna work with statistics here but let’s face it; almost everyone we know has an account with Facebook. Even our moms have one! Facebook has grown so huge that it pops up in almost every conversation you have with someone. Companies, celebraties even babies! They all have a Facebook account! It’s amazing!
Here comes the golden question, are you addicted to Facebook?
I’ll be really honest here. I am addicted to Facebook; I log in to my account every single day. Mainly for my farm. I might be one of the people who keeps spamming your wall with my FarmVille notifications.
Sure, I get some friends complaining that all I do is FARM FARM FARM. But seriously you guys, is that REALLY a problem? I mean, if you hate seeing those news feeds from me, just Hide it! Not too hard now isn’t that? I love FarmVille and that DOES NOT make me a freak. What’s wrong with having your own little virtual farm? You know, it has always been my dream to own a farm with chickens running around, but growing up in Singapore I’m deprived of that.
Some people I know are complaining that their privacy has been breached by Facebook. By that, they meant that Facebook has allow advertisers to use their Profile Picture along with their name to promote their products. I have my concerns there as well, but it only goes that far and my Profile are still limited to My Friends Only, so there’s really nothing for me to be worried about. There is something that I have to say to those people who are so paranoid about the revised security features. Why join if you want to remain anonymous through and through?
I can’t be arsed about Facebook security because I know that anything that I publish on the internet will never be private. That’s where I learn to choose what I share with others. There is a bigger part of my life that will remain closed and it will stay that way. But to stop using Facebook? I won’t do that.
26 Nov 2009
by Ubiquityin Facebook Tags: Facebook, FarmVille, updates
I haven’t been THAT busy lately but I’ve been rather lazy and I must blame it all on FarmVille. Damn! That game is totally addictive! It has almost sucked me out of my (what’s left of) life. I wouldn’t divulge on how often I log on to Facebook just to check on my farm on FarmVille. But I will tell you guys that I was level-ing up almost every other day. That’s bad. To make matters worse, I’ve also converted my mom and my younger brother to a FarmVille addict as well.
Oh, do you wanna see my farm? I’m so proud of my farm.
Golden Chicken
One thing that I’m starting to hate about FarmVille is, they have started to become like other games where they offer premium items (eg: orange cat, black chicken, brown chicken, golden chicken…) at a price. Normally, users can use their FarmVille cash which is earned through each level up. However, most of the items are overpriced! Like the Golden Chicken for instance, you need 25 bloody FarmVille cash for that!
EITHER the user have to play till level 25 to get the chicken OR buy the FarmVille cash. Sure, the FarmVille cash is reasonably price but seriously you guys! Who would really wanna pay for a virtual Golden Chicken? I have yet to know about any of my friends / family paying for it. Why can’t they keep the game free? Joining Facebook is free.
Gotten off Facebook
Okay, so maybe the creators of FarmVille have seen the opportunity in this. Especially with the number of people playing. The last time I checked, they have 67 million monthly users. Yes! To be exact, they have 67, 541, 274 active users each month! Don’t believe me? Here, lemme show you…
I got that off their application page on Facebook. Now imagine if each person pays a one-time fee of $1 to play… Okay, that doesn’t take a rocket scientist to calculate but that would already be $67,541,274 of earning for them!
Now I’m really starting to wonder why they didn’t charge in the first place… They could’ve been millionaires by now.
On the other hand, I’m thankful that they’re not charging too. Which means I could still play without forking a single cent (besides the premium items of course). So I’ll just go back to being a reasonable farmer, plant more veggies and buy what I can afford.
Aside with the negativity, I like that FarmVille constantly creates new items and features for the farm. I know this is gonna sound silly to those of you who doesn’t play the game / who hates the game / who just can’t be bothered with the game, but it’s pretty nifty when they allow you to store things in a barn or selling the gifts you received.
For instance, when all your friends send you the same gift; say a potted plant. Logically you wouldn’t want the same looking potted plant all around your farm. So what do you do you with the extra potted plants that you have? You store it or sell it!
Genius!
But then again with the ’selling of the gift you receive’ option, they’re promoting that idea in real life. Which I think is NOT what you are supposed to do, even if you receive 3 toaster for your housewarming gift. Fred however feels that I’m wrong. He said, “I would definitely try to sell them”, him being the one with more sense most of the time. Not before adding that, “without them knowing”. Ha! There you go, that’s EXACTLY why I said you shouldn’t be selling the gifts that you received! It’s just so… Oh, I hate saying that word. But you get the idea.
Ahhh… one thing rattles on to the other and now I’m starting to be really hungry. So I’m gonna end this entry abruptly and bug my boyfriend till he takes me out to eat.
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