I am quite sure of the fact that the term “FarmVille” is well-known to you all. After its launch in the mid ’09, it almost swept off the world with its inescapable attraction. It is the famous successor of previous games like Harvest Monsoon, Farm Town, Happy Farm etc, but in terms of popularity it has crossed all the records and compelled to rewrite the history once again. According to Wikipedia “FarmVille is a farming simulation social network game…involving various aspects of farm management such as plowing land, planting, growing and harvesting crops, harvesting trees and bushes, and by raising livestock.”

In social networking sites like Facebook, this game comes as an application or app, in short. While the PC browser-based version comes as Adobe Flash application, for iPhone and iPad FarmVille is just a normal application you need to download and sync with your personal account. Market researchers call this game freemium i.e. free + premium as you can play it for free, but to enjoy the premium features you need to spend real money. The latest report shows that it comes third in the list of most popular social networking games.

FarmVille is one such game which has brought revolution and changed some aspects of social networking and social media marketing. People are now quite accustomed with social networking and some of them truly get bored chatting with friends or reading people’s wall posts. And as you know too much of something brings familiarity, people started losing interest in MySpace, Yahoo, Facebook and other such platforms. It’s game like FarmVille which has brought people back in their chairs and compelled them to log on to their social networking accounts.

Statistics shows that around 25% of Facebook users log on to play FarmVille and 50% of the total users play this game religiously. Simple features of this simulation game are probably the reason behind such massive popularity. One can easily load this game, start playing, complete tasks, earn money, level up and increase the size of the farm. And to make FarmVille a social game, it acts as a multiplayer game which requires help from friends and neighbours to complete certain tasks and goals.

So if you are really eager to turn your farm into a huge sprawling garden with lots of farmland to grow vegetables, you need to interact with your friends and collect required materials from them.