I Find Farmville & Cafe World to be a Complete Waste of Time

Situation #1: A coworker was telling me how she went to the Weezer/Blink 182 Concert and called her friend, not to let her listen to the band live via a cell phone.. no, she asked her friend to log onto her Facebook account and harvest her strawberries.

Situation #2: A friend was telling me that one time he was leaving his house to go visit his Fraternity brother in the hospital, and before he left he asked his Mom to check on his chicken--his chicken in Cafe World that is.I have never liked Farmville, Cafe World, or any of those other kind of casual role-playing games that people play on Facebook (Mafia Wars, Yo-Ville, etc). I understand that it's fun, how you can share crops with your friends, and refuse to scare crows or black sheep or whatever off your ex-best friend's farm, or go to your cousin's restaurant and eat their soup of the day to help them out... but I personally think it's a waste of time. These kind of games have no appeal to me whatsoever, so maybe I'm biased. But whenever someone asks me to borrow my laptop to check their cafe, I just make fun of them. Incessantly.

But I guess to most people, these games are appealing. Especially since their main platform seems to be Facebook, the social networking that promotes wasting time through applications and reconnecting with friends. Not to mention that parents going on facebook seems to be the new trend, so they must find Farmville and Cafe World fun.. that is, after they check the pictures that their kids were tagged in last night. According to this review on Farmville that I found, which puts Farmville in a very positive light that made me rethink my biased opinion of the game, it continually described Farmville as "fun for all ages":

"Despite the simplicity of the game, Farmville is actually very fun to play. It is perfect for the casual gamer who doesn’t have much time in a busy day to do much gaming. It is very easy to learn and even a game that a smaller child could play along with a parent. The graphics in the game are fine and do the job adequately. There is a soundtrack but it is the same song played over and over again which you may tire of quite quickly but there is a sound option button so you can turn this off." So maybe to people this is just a fun way to waste the day.

After looking up some other's opinions online, I don't have the bias that I had yesterday. Whatever, let people have fun with their games. Not everyone loves Super Mario or Legend of Zelda or Guitar Hero, so whatever. I just refuse to play Farmville, and I'm not alone.