FarmVille vs. Real Farms

Published on 09-11-2010 01:12 PM Number of Views: 963

With all those millions of Facebook and iPhone users tending to virtual crops and sharing them with friends, have you ever wondered how their toils stack up against actual real-life farmers?
How does our output of digital (and decidedly less tasty) tomatoes compare with our worldwide production of real tomatoes? And perhaps most importantly, who are these casual croppers, and are they anything like their plow-toting counterparts?

We broke it down by the numbers and put some of these FarmVille trends in perspective for you.

Go on. Harvest it.

What do you think? Does FarmVille ignite our romance with all things pastoral? Are digital crops poised to overtake real ones in terms of GDP? What does all this mean for the fate of humanity?

Source: Mashable

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4 Comments

duke0102 - 09-11-2010, 03:15 PM
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Does anyone else think comparing a virtual farm to a real one is a bit lame? One is full of hard working and sometimes underpaid people and the other are people who must think Futuramas (TV Show) Virtual-Virtual-Vitrual Skeetball is a must .. rant over

taniquetil - 09-11-2010, 03:59 PM
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It's much easier to farm when you can do it sitting down without hauling equipment on 90F days and not having to worry about the stock market and how the growing number of firms who hedged for wheat growth are suddenly paying you way under market price because of positions they took out years ago.

Quarterquack - 09-13-2010, 04:48 AM
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And no one thought that the fact that corn doesn't make it to either list is highly surprising?

tesco - 09-18-2010, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ringhunter

And no one thought that the fact that corn doesn't make it to either list is highly surprising?

Probably not since it DID make it to the list.