Meaning of FarmViller | Babel Free

Definitions

A player of the agriculture-simulation social network game FarmVille.

Examples

“My roommates and I have become diehard FarmVillers.”

“Les Hulcoop, a recently retired Dutchess Cornell Cooperative Extension agriculture educator, said the number of Web-based “Farmvillers”^([sic]) vs. real farmers is 60:1.”

“"There's a girl I went to school with, and who I never speak to, but I now fertilise her crops for her," she says. To the uninitiated, this behaviour might seem bizarre, but hardened FarmVillers say all of this helps you win extra points and prizes.”

“FarmVillers total something like 1% of the world’s population!”

“In addition to marathon planting and harvesting, a Farmviller^([sic]) can earn coin and experience points by helping friends with their farms.”

“There’s a new hybrid of online gamer. They live on Facebook, flooding our news feeds with updates and friend requests. You might know one. They’re called ‘The Farmvillers,’^([sic]) and there are 75 million of them.”

“The first question that springs to mind is: are Google+ users going to be similar to Facebook’s? That’s a hard question to answer but an important one nonetheless. Why would people leave the comfort of their familiar and well inhabited social platform to move to Google’s? (No one believes Google will attract a lot of social virgins.) Are these the FarmVillers? Considering the way Google+ is being positioned, you might think “no, they’re not”.”

“Farmvillers^([sic]) must plant something called a Serve Money Tree to see a sign-up promotion for the card, linked to a Serve account.”

“Despite being categorized as mind-numbing inculcation of repetitive behavior (Liszkiewicz, 2010), Farmvillers^([sic]) derive a great deal of pleasure from the activities associated with farming but also with the pattern of sociality that is architecturally driven into the game space where “code is law” (Lessig, 1999).”

“The social gaming world of Farmville can be taken for inspiration, as a familiar visualization tool and community-building platform for the maintenance of a farm and its related social transactions. The game world simulates the development of a virtual plot of land, and also provides opportunities for individual Farmvillers^([sic]) to collaborate and form social bonds.”

“That hack exposed the usernames and passwords of 170 million Farmville,^([sic]) Words With Friends, and other mobile game players everywhere. […] Bet you regret building your agrarian empire now, farmvillers!^([sic])”

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