The Facebook application FarmVille launched in June 2009 and in just a few short months, it has become the number one played game on Facebook. At the time of this writing, it has over 73 million active users. For those who don’t know what FarmVille is, it is a simulation game where players can plant, grow and harvest crops, animals, and trees on their very own farm. Here are 10 ways how FarmVille would change the world if it was real.
1.) World Hunger Would Be Solved
If crops were able to be harvested in 4 hours, or 16 hours, then world hunger would be solved. We would be swimming in surpluses of strawberries, yellow melons, and pumpkins. Oddly enough, the obesity rate would increase as hunger decreased.
2.) World “Trade” Would Skyrocket, Economies Would Boom
With the ability to send and receive “gifts” on FarmVille, the world economy would go into a giant boom as goats, apple trees, and horses are exchanged all over the world.
3.) Time Management Would Be Second Nature To Everyone
Everyone in the world would know when to harvest their crops, and would plan what crops to be planted based on their daily schedule. If you didn’t know how to manage your crops, you would be punished by having to see them wither.
4.) Everyone Would Live Next To You
It would be possible for some people to have 50 neighbors within a few acres of each other. Security and other safety measures would be unneeded as neighbors will let others walk onto their farms and fertilize their crops and get rid of foxes. (Ironically enough, the world would have major fox and raccoon problems).
5.) The Environment Would Be Cleaner
Not everyone would decide to use a plow or harvester, which requires precious fuel to use. Millions of farmers would do all their hard work by hand, thus sparing the Earth of dangerous chemicals and greenhouse gases.
6.) There’d Be No Need To Wonder Where Pink Milk Came From
This is simple. Regular milk would come from regular cows. Chocolate milk would come from brown cows. Strawberry milk would come from pink cows. Milktonium would come from green cows. Oh, and black chickens would only lay black eggs and brown chickens would only lay brown eggs. No one would question this. Ever.
7.) Bales of Hay Would Become the World’s #1 Decorative Material
Not just regular yellow bales of hay, but green bales, red bales, blue bales, white bales, and even black bales. Bales would become a way for a farmer to express themselves artistically. Topiaries would also be en vogue. You’d be a poser unless you had an ostrich or flamingo topiary on your land.
8.) Everyone Would Be Wealthy and Paper Money Loses Importance
Almost every single farmer and person would have thousands of coins available to buy almost anything they wanted and to buy new crops. Bankruptcy would not exist.
9.) Some Decorative Objects Would Serve No Purpose In Life
That butter churn you bought looks great, but you can’t use it to churn butter. You can’t use that greenhouse. You can’t use that windmill. It’s like fake fruit in model homes. It’s just there to look pretty.
10.) Zynga Would Be The Only Corporation and Government
The Earth might just be unified under one flag, the Zynga Flag. Zynga would be the name of this new country. Zynga would also be the head of state, making all decisions on when people would be allowed to celebrate holidays and then authorizing the use of holiday items. Strangely enough, Zynga would also create new species as time went on, such as baby turkeys, and then subsequently make that animal go extinct 7 days later.
There is hope, even in a FarmVille world. We can all rebel, and decide to not sell our preciously harvested crops to Zynga. Instead, we can take those crops and use them in ingredients to start our own line of cafes…
I wish the world was like Farmville! Even though I don’t play! lol
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