Farmtown and Farmville: Two of the Most Popular Games Played in Facebook

Before I got hooked on Facebook, there was Friendster. I never expected Facebook to offer surprising features for their users. My first impression was “ah just another social networking site”. Several months after registering an account, I realized I was wrong. Facebook developed several features like the applications, picture tagging, video sharing, fan page, groups, etc. which made it a very interesting social networking site.

Slowly, I drifted away from my Friendster account. I barely access my Friendster account now and would only open it if I get notified thru my email that I have a message waiting to be read.

So yeah I admit I got hooked to Facebook now. One of the major reasons is the fun games that I can play on Facebook. As far as I can recall, among the very first games that I played on facebook was Word Challenge. Then there was also Tower Bloxx, and Bowling Buddies. I am not really into playing all those games. I do it to relax and exercise my brain.

One thing I noticed though is that there are quite a number of games on Facebook in which the theme is about farming. So I am just curious, why are there millions of people all over the world who are so hooked to these farming games? Could it be because most of us cannot own a real farm? Farmtown and Farmville are amongst the most popular of them and I can attest to that since my friends, young and old alike, play these games.

Why are these games addicting when in fact the players get nothing like a reward from it. Well I guess the real reward would come when your friends see how you are able to beautifully decorate your farm right? I have not played Farmtown and Farmville yet (but I play barn buddy – another farming game), but my nephew does and it is only one of the many games that he plays on Facebook. Yeah he is turning 7 this November and he has his own FB account. My sister created an account for him since he used to access it using the account of his father and he could not play as much as he wants as he cannot publish his accomplishments in the games he play (the boss of his father might think he is not doing his work).

What about you? What games do you play?