This is my first review of a Facebook App…

If you are a Facebook user, you’ve probably have heard of this game whether you play it or not. You’ve seen it when others have reached another level or when they have found some animal on their farm.

Background: Farmville is a game where you create a virtual farm. On the farm you have to plant or host animals to make money. The things that you plant will need to be harvested dependent on the times stated in the market. Growing times range from a couple hours to 4 day or more. You get experience points and cash for almost everything you do in Farmville.

So what intrigued me to participate in the game? The game is very simple to understand with its simple UI. If you have played other games by Zynga, then the layout is pretty similar. I have always been a fan of simulation games. In this game you simply plant, harvest, and plow. Very simple to understand.

I also enjoy the special holiday items that have incorporated in the game. For example, for Halloween they had limited edition gifts and items you could buy from the store. Of course many of the things you could buy from the store costs a lot of money.

Gifting is something that many people do religiously in the game. However, I don’t always find time to send a gift everyday. You can only send a certain amount a day and can only send one gift to a certain person each day.

Is there anything I don’t like about the game? Yes, sort of. I cannot stand it when the game has some sort of connectivity issues. However Farmville does not have as many connectivity issues as any of the Playfish games. I do understand that sometimes servers go down, but Zynga offers no protection to the crops when servers go down. For example lets say I planted raspberries, which take 2 hours to grow. I have to harvest them within 2 hours after the 2 hours then have grown. However, what is something happened to the network and I can’t get into the game for another 3 hours later. All my crops have withered away costing me games money and points.

I also am not thrilled with the cost of some of the items in the market. Most of them require Farm Cash (there is no clear way of making cash). You can however add cash via Paypal and your cell phone. I find that pretty useless. I see many items in the market have a high price that requires Farmville Cash not coins. I think they should completely get rid of the Farmville Cash and use just coins which you CAN make.

I encourage everyone to check out this game.

For tomorrows game you will be disappointed by the Twitter updates from your favorites players and coahces. Why? Because they are not allowed to use the social network site Twitter. Of course, that doesn’t mean they stop completely. The NFL is not allowing anyone in the association to use Twitter 90 miutes before the game, during interviews, and so forth.

In my personal opinion, I think this move is a big mistake. This social interaction is important to the fans of football.

Tell me what you think of Twitter being banned by the NFL

The geniuses at TechCrunch have made a stir for themselves again.

Apparently TechCrunch received some secrets about Twitter’s financial projects and some other information from a hacker.  According to Twitter, the hacker hacked into the E-mail of an employee. The information included what Twitter’s financial projects were. And the other information, we know could be embarrassing to to some people at Twitter. TechCrunch has already posted some information they have received already.

Now the legal counselors of Twitter are looking into what legal action they can take. I do hope that Twitter does pursue in taking them to court. TechCrunch posted reports that no one should have seen. If they were smart, they wouldn’t have done that. They deserve to be sued. If they were going to do the moral thing, they would’ve helped Twitter out by providing them information about the hacker.

Hackers like this make it bad for everyone else. There are good hackers and there are bad hackers. A good hacker will help a federal agency or police department. A bad hacker will rebel against a federal agency or police department.