The new addiction of Ms. Sally Piles involves a wonderful little Facebook application called "Farmville." In Farmville, people plan, grow, and maintain a pretend farm with pretend fuits, crops, and livestock. One thing about this application (notice I do not use the word "GAME" because it isnt a game....games have objectives.....) that is pretty neat is the community spirit alive within the context of Farmville. Basically, all of Amanda's "friends" who play Farmville all have their farms "near" each other. Part of the daily commitment of "playing" Farmville is that you not only tend to your own crops and animals, but also the crops and animals of your neighbors. Altruistic by nature, Amanda will get on, check on Belle, Michelle, or Twon's farms, and say out loud "hmmm....Anthony's strawberries need to be watered...." and thus pretend water them. By taking care of other people's pretend crap, you get pretend money which can be used to buy more pretend crap, which can then be added to your "farm." Here is Amanda's farm.... (notice how she is personally "welcoming" you with her friendly face.....this is yet another cool thing Macs can do that PCs cannot....)
Amanda's farm looks pretty good, huh? It should, considering she spends AT LEAST 40 minutes a day playing the wonderful game....she has lots of fruit trees, a chicken coop, a dairy farm barn, and lots of room to expand to grow more stuff. She even has a duck pond. But she does NOT have a place to live yet.
If this obsession keeps up longer, you wont have a REAL place to live either.....hahaJust kidding. Truthfully, I love her little farm. It is actually really cute, and I like the community involvement of it....the irony, of course, being that you isolate yourself from direct interpersonal communication so that you can participate in each other's fake lives. Hilarious!
But Amanda loves her farm, and that makes me happy. I guess I have some pretty strange things I do too......RIGHT???!!!
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Is it ORGANIC???????
Funny how you made fun of Twon's farm but now love Amanda's...hmmm just saying.
Amanda, I hope you bring your laptop so your crops don't die over thanksgiving...oh wait, Anthony can water them for you :-)
oh dont worry....we'll be bringing our mac. we need to do some photobooth stuff with cs and j-rob, so i can work on the "Callum and Jackson: Besties 4-Eva" slide show....
oh dont worry....we'll be bringing our mac. we need to do some photobooth stuff with cs and j-rob, so i can work on the "Callum and Jackson: Besties 4-Eva" slide show....
Panda, grow me some gange.
jared likes to play with trains
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