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I say it all the time, “there are not enough hours in the day.” “I can’t get anything done”. “I have NO TIME!!!!!” “My day is full, where does the time go.” “I have a list a mile long.”So when my friend Karen who is as busy if not busier than I am showed me her farm I couldn’t imagine when she would have the time to play on this farm. But really I was thinking WHY???? would you want to play on this farm. Why would you want to add something as silly as a computer game to your long to do list. To me it just didn’t make sense. That was until I got my own plot of ground in Farm Town.
Farm Town is an interactive game that your able to play if you have a Facebook account. When you signup your given a plot of ground that your able to work the land to make money to buy things like a home, a barn, animals. Things that everyone wants. The difference is you have to work to get these things. There are no credit cards to get “things” either.
Sounding silly to you? Well that was my initial reaction when Karen gave me a tour of her farm in Farm Town. Now we are neighbors and she is showing me the ropes.
The game is designed so that your able to progress to different levels not only with money but also by helping other people. I just started 3 days ago and I am already on level 9. At the moment my fields are all planted with sunflowers,tomatoes and rice. I have it planned so that at about 11am Saturday morning I will hire someone to HARVEST my entire field. Then I will have to figure out what will be the best to my advantage to plant for me with the money I have available.
I am being greedy at this stage gathering all of the money that I can for my farm that I have named, “Critter Haven Farm.” If all this sounds silly to you don’t feel bad. I thought the same things. I hate to admit it but this a very addicting game. Karen’s son and husband are both land barons just like we are. They were driving in the country and her son was looking at all of the fields that had been planted, he said, “I wonder why they planted what they did, and I wonder how much they paid for their seed? and I wonder how much money they will get for their crops when it is time for them to go to market?” Now you can’t tell me he isn’t learning something, and making him THINK too.
This game teaches work ethics, if you don’t get your crops out you will lose them… Finish what you start…timing is important. Not getting your crops out means wasted money. I have my eye on the mansion but it will be awhile before I can get that. I need a shelter for my critters and I need fencing so they don’t wander off to the neighbors. But all of this takes time, planning, money and lots of work.
I think this game could be a great teacher, about many things.
See you at the Market.
Cindy
Cindy
Farm Town isn’t just for kids! It absolutely teaches great life skills – and the cool thing about learning through games is that you retain what you learn. Anyone who has played “The Cash Flow Game” knows that. In addition to teaching life skills, Farm Town is a great little escape from the everyday. Watching your crops grow, your coins grow, gaining new “buddies” and neighbors is good for the soul.
Everyone should have a plot on Farm Town!
I couldn’t agree more.
But… WHO KNEW!!!! certainly not me.
How could I have been so WRONG???
Cindy
Oh the lessons Farm Town can teach us… about ourselves, about marketing online, about people, and about business in general.
One thing I find interesting is different motivations. Some people are working to build up their critter count… others don’t want them (me) because they have no real monetary value on Farm Town. You can sell them for a few coins, but other than that, in my opinion, they take up space. They cost money because if you want to corral them in, you have to buy fencing… so I can do without them, but some people think a farm without animals is like an apple pie without apples!
Some people want a great looking farm. This is the lifestyle motivation. They want flowers and pathways, and all the pretty things that decorate and make their farm a comfortable place to “live”. There is a lot of competition on Farm Town to have your farm look better than the Jones’s! (so to speak).
The quickest way to get ahead in Farm Town, and in life, is to help others. You make more money if you hire people to work for you. Isn’t that interesting? Makes you think of a few analogies to internet marketing – outsourcing and helping others for two biggies.
The thing that I like to do is to watch people. I like doing that in real life too! It intrigues me to see how people behave. Go to the MarketPlace sometime and observe. What do you see?
Farm Town is really more than just a distraction. Unless that’s all you want is to be distracted… it can do that too!
FarmTown is a wonderful game. I love to listen to the things that people say on it and i love to get into a great conversation. It is very easy to become addicted to it. I never really understood people that were addicted to things like this until i became addicted. And once you are addicted, there is no cure.
Wolvie,
Thanks so much for the post. You passed the second part of the test too.
I hired Wolvie to work on my farm. I picked Wolvie for a very simple reason. Let me tell you about it.
The other morning I had crops that needed to be harvested. I went to the market and said, “Good Morning Everybody.” I want you to know not one person responded to me. They were all to busy begging. I don’t know about you, but I just hate that.
So I went to the Real Estate Office and once again I said, “Good Morning Everybody.” Wolvie was the ONLY person to respond to me. I hired Wolvie to plow and then harvest all my fields.
I can’t imagine begging. I get hired every time I go in and I have never begged.. not once.
Wolvie, it was nice meeting you and once again thanks for helping me work my farm in Farm Town.
Cindy
I can think of worse things to be addicted to, Can’t you?
(Don’t you love it when it rhymes)
Karen, I learn many of life’s lessons everyday working in Farm Town.
Thanks again for telling me about it.
Cindy
I love Farm Town on FB, too, and understand that it is also on Myspace. It teaches me a wealth of information related to work and how consistency and persistence, helping others and allowing others to help you, too. It is a true pay it forward game. Greediness has no place there if you want to acheive, but setting goals and working toward those goals really pay off.
Bev Kennedy
It sure does Bev,
Farm Town teaches many things.
See you on the farm.
Cindy
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