Facebook: Farmville is better than Sex

 Facebook, games, Online Communities, social networks  17 Responses »
Feb 032010
 

Farmville is better than sex. Don’t just take my word for it:

From FMyLife website:

Today, my husband and I were in bed, and just as I was about to finish he screamed, “Oh shit! It’s 4:15, my strawberries are gonna whither!!!!” and then jumped off me and went to check on his farm on FarmVille. An imaginary farm, on Facebook. FML

Love the 258 comments

What would you do if this guy was yours?

  1. Leave him?
  2. Build a better farm?
  3. Build a better farm and then leave him?

I vote number 3. Are our lives changing? It’s interesting to me that a few years ago, he’d be like, “gotta go now, the footy is on the telly”. People don’t change. Just their pathetic excuses do :P Or is social gaming somehow a different beast? Have we time shifted our television viewing just to be sucked into the false urgency of reaping crops? Ummm, you answer that, I’ve gotta go milk the cows and harvest the pineapples.

My farm is pretty sexy, no?

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Revenue: Social media games and virtual goods 2010

 Monetization, Money, Online Communities, revenue, social media, social networks, virtual world  14 Responses »
Jan 272010
 

Virtual goods in the USA will reach $1.6 billion revenue in 2010 I have a patent in social network economies particularly in user generated virtual goods – which we don’t see a lot of yet. So I tend to keep an eye on how virtual goods are coming along. That’s the problem with patents, you have to get your timing right to develop and launch. When I took out the patent – pre Facebook, pre Twitter – it was impossible to explain to investors how pixel products were going to jump from closed game worlds (Everquest) into the real world. Continue Reading…

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