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=What is up with Farmville?=

Hi! We are R²D² coming to you to tell you about a new game that has everyone addicted. That addicting game is Farmville. Farmville is a virtual farming game on Facebook in which you cultivate your own farm. You can then grow and harvest your own crops and earn money to expand your land and plant a more diverse amount of crops and animals. When you get your money from milking your cows, chickens, goats, sheep, crops, and trees you get to use that money to buy new buildings, land, animals, crops, and anything else you want to have on the farm. This game at the first glance is just a very boring and just plain stupid, but once you start playing and liking it, you become absolutely addicted. We have found that many kids and adults have started playing Farmville and getting horribly addicted. We believe this game is so addicting because the game allows life to go by at a rapid pace. You can virtually plant or get animals on your farm and then come back the next day or even hours later to harvest your crops and get the milk from your animals. It is also very addicting because it’s so easy to plant and grow as much as you want with such a small amount of money and time. What is totally out of whack is how much money the company called Zynga is making for inventing Farmville and putting it on Facebook. The company makes an unbelievable amount of money! They make $250 million dollars a year! That’s so much money! Some companies are having a hard time keeping up to the same amount of income as Zynga and they even have better games than them. It’s totally ridiculous! If you don’t believe us check it out yourself at http://www.businessinsider.com/zygna-revenues-are-closer-to-250-million-says-banker-2009-10. SO REPORT BACK and tell us your opinion on this game called Farmville and the amount of income the company Zynga is making!!!!! Hey guys- I thought I heard something about this guy doing something with these Facebook games to make even more money...have you heard that or can you find out any more information? I would also love to know how he came up with his ideas if you can dig that up too...Mrs. Allen

Hey guys! Great post! I'm kind of addicted to Farmville as well, but now I find it boring! I have a quick question, how do they make the money off of this game? Good job guys! ~ Neha

​ ​ Hey Ryan, Ryan and Drew, I use to be hooked on Farmville but now it seems pointless. My sister who is a Junior in High School over at Stoney is ADDICTED, and I can't make her get off! Farmvile is an okay game but there are more "exciting" games. This is a great subject. Maybe you can check out mine as well. It's Linda and Dayna School and Debates. ~Dayna~ :) **HELLO! I love Farmville! At first I didn't like it because I couldn't make any money off of it but after I played more and more It's becoming more ADDICTING! The only thing I dislike about Farmville is if you don't want to go on everyday then all of your crops die! Isn't there another game by Zynga because I have a Fishville and I believe it is by Zynga. Could you find out about the other games by Zynga on Facebook? Great blog post! Lindsey**

I personally think that Zynga games are so ADDICTING! I actually play a lot of them. For Farmville, I was extremely addicted to like no other. But now, it is kind of boring. I have my moments when I just sit by my computer on Farmville for a long time. Then other times I have nothing good to do with it. I think that is very wrong to charge people just to earn coins and dollars. They should not be doing that and people should not be wasting their money on it. Oh and I like FishVille. Clarence :]

That is very true because I play Farmville and before, when I started, it seemed very stupid to me and I said "What's the point of this game?" After a couple of days of playing I noticed that it is actually very fun (most of the time).

My mom recently showed me an internet article on FarmVille, claiming that Zyanga the maker of FarmVille was scamming the players with ads that would secretly make you pay, like it would make you put in your phone number then charge you through your phone company for things you don't even want. -jason320

All of my friends wanted me to start playing Farmville. At first I thought it was stupid, but as soon as I started playing it I could not stop. I think the reason why everyone is so addicted is because you have to keep on updating your farm. I am not really addicted to it. I only play it when I am bored and have nothing to do. I also play other Zynga games. I like Fishville better than Farmville. I like Farmville but sometimes it becomes frustrating and makes me want to just stop playing because of crowded it you get to excited. Do you think that is true, and has it ever happened to you?

I think that the companies of these games are getting a lot of money just from a game on Facebook. I didn't know they received that much money. Like these other people, I have noticed more fun games like Fishville and Foopets. You could blog about those other games to. ~Abby

I think Farmville is boring and should be deleted

My grandma and mom are always playing on Farmville. I think it's annoying that everyone thinks it is so addicting, but I don't know because I don't play it. Abby is right, you guys should blog about other games that people are addicted to. I know that Fishville is very popular.

Still, I think Farmville is such a waste (no offence) because why would you want to just farm... and farm... and farm... I don't get that at all

1/4/10 Drew, Ryan, Ryan

1.After observing the many blog word clouds on facebook we noticed that the most common word was "addicting". 2. 3. The two word clouds both use the words money, Farmville, Zynga, and crops a lot. The two clouds are different because the other cloud talks about all of Facebook while we only talk about Farmvill. 4. The blog we found that is similar to our blog is called the "Farmville blog" ([]). We also found another blog called "Farmville: Distraction or Addiction" ([]). 5. The blogs are different than our blog because they talk about tips and ways to enhance your farm. They also give a crop calculator. They are similar to our blog because they talk about how addicting they are and what the game is about. 6.Our group would like to talk about the different types of games that Zynga has made and how they make their money off of them. I think we will need to read up on the different games they have made such as Fishville and cafe world. This info will help make our next post.

Zynga Games and Money Scams!!!!! Hello fellow Facebook users! We just found out that Zynga isn’t only responsible for making Farmville, but is also responsible for many more new games. These games just build and build on Facebook, only making the company more successful. They don’t care that many kids, teens, and adults are getting addicted, they just like money! Zynga features many games from Café world, Yoville, Petville, and poker. It really puzzles you and leaves you hanging about how they make millions and millions of dollars off these games. They make a puzzling amount at [|Fifty Million dollars a year], which is way more than they should make considering that they are only flash games (quick games that only take minutes to play, like Miniclip). This money includes games that they make on the Iphone, MySpace, as well as Facebook. Give us your opinion after checking our link. Thanks R2D2 OUT!!!!!

Hey guys! I think that it is just ridiculous how much money these companies are making! I mean fifty million dollars for some game that takes a minute or two to win? How much do they charge and where do they get the money? These games just seem to be popping up. I wonder what would happen if everyone just stopped playing these games? Good job you guys. ~Neha~

Hey I think that it is also odd how these companies make so much money off of these games. But I believe that Facebook pays for this game to be on the website since so many people play this game. Also you have a choice of buying money would also give the company more money. Zynga has many different games to play which all of them could have a different way for earning money for Zynga. But in the end I am still puzzled how they have earned fifty million dollars a year! I think you guys should to try to figure out more about this topic. But it’s very interesting. -Lindsey **// Haiti //****// Earthquake //**

Dear fellow R2D2 readers. We would like to change our topic from Facebook addictions to World News or World events. Now I am sure all you people have herd the goat in the barn, but have you heard about the Haiti Earthquake. It’s such a devastating tragedy at a [|magnitude 7.0] earthquake. That is 3.0 below the maximum magnitude of 10.0 (the highest magnitude on the Rictor Scale). There have been other earthquakes above this magnitude but have never been so shallow to the surface. This earthquake occurred about 8.1 miles below the surface of the crust and 45 miles from Port-Au-Prince, capital of Haiti. This earthquake was such a horrible earthquake not only because of the depth of it, but the nation itself. First, the nation of Haiti has so many inhabitances on such a small island that they feel the need to build the apartments out of concrete to find a fast an easy way to house people. As you can imagine, concrete isn’t flexible, it’s very ridged and stiff, which makes the buildings able to collapse and crumble very easily. Furthermore, the nation is so poor and has never had any backup in case such a disaster appeared. Finally, the good side to this is that many nations’ including China are coming to help the poor nation, Haiti. What are your feelings about the earthquake, and the help that Haiti is receiving?????