Kimopolis

My Virtual Farm

Hi. My name is Kimberly and I’m an addict.

I’m not addicted to drugs or alcohol, nor am I addicted to gambling or even shopping. I’m addicted to FarmVille. Yes, FarmVille, that ridiculously time-consuming Facebook application that’s taken over my life. At first it was just a couple of crops here and there, and then someone gifted me a Cherry tree. It really didn’t start to spiral out of control until I started in with the livestock. The next thing I knew, I had enough chickens to fill an entire coop and a half (why can’t you have more than one chicken coop, FarmVille? WHY?!?), a dairy farm full of cows, not to mention the goats, sheep, ducks, pigs, horses, and the giant turkey I purchased at Thanksgiving. I’ve already expanded my farm twice, and I couldn’t even count how many different types of crops I can grow at once. I have so many trees, I can’t even see some of them anymore. The only way I know it’s time to harvest them is if my cursor turns into that little blue sickle telling me it’s harvest time.

What’s worse is now that Christmas is right around the corner, the FarmVille Market has a plethora of holiday themed items. I’ve already accumulated 8 reindeer and a special stray one I found wandering on someone else’s farm who I call “Rudolph”. I’m just waiting to save up enough Farm Cash to buy a sleigh, because spending real money is where I draw the line. Everything on my farm has been earned through hard labor, bringing in the sheaves, as it were. Sure the evil FarmVille geniuses try and tempt me with special offers, discounted Farm Cash and Coin bundles, but the moment I whip out my credit card…well, that’s when I’m definitely going to seek professional help. I’ve got to tell you, though, when I first saw the giant snow globe with the little barn inside, I almost caved.

And it’s not just the bounty of farm related items that can be purchased to make your farm more, well, farmier. It’s the secret gifts and the lost rare animals (like the pink cow I adopted the other day who, of course, yields strawberry milk) that drive me to check Facebook several times a day (okay, an hour) to see what my fellow farming friends have discovered or accomplished. I want that Mystery Egg. I want to share your Special Bonus for receiving the Yellow Ribbon in the Crop Whisperer category or a White Ribbon for being the King of Compost. Yes, I will visit your farm and pull weeds or shoo the crows before I fertilize your crops because I want the Experience Points, and yes, I want those Farm Coins and Cash. Because I don’t know exactly how I am going to earn 28 Farm Dollars in the next 27 days, but that snow globe will be mine. Oh, yes. It WILL be mine.

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