Farmville....Friend or Foe?

Have you ever wondered why people play games?
Does it make any sense?
I can only derive a small bit of logic out of it, but I'm sure someone else has already found the answer. I think people play video games to escape their surroundings at first, then further play, because it is as if their second world needs them. The subordinate world does not move on without them, and such is the wasy of the video game. People must play or the other realm will become stagnant and useless, proving to be a waist of time.

Well, there is a game titled "Farmville" on Facebook, and damn the makers of such an atrocity. It started out as a way to cure my curiousity and quiet the cats. You just ploy land, plant crops, wait for them to grow, harvest/sell them, and repeat. Sounds simple enough. You can let them wither away if you wait too long, which makes you start over, having lost all the money put in to planting it. There are also animals, buildings, trees, and decorations, but those are for another post.

I'm not quite addicted, but I can see myself being. It's rough out there in Farmville world, especially when your friends/neighbors want you to send gifts every day, and you have sent out too many already. I really need to stop, but even my teacher plays. I think everyone is addicted, and if they aren't, they should be.

Does the time video games take up really affect our world?
Yes.
In a negative light?
That's up to you, the reader to decide, but my views are as follows.

No, video games do not affect the real world in a negative sense. They teach morals, which no one is getting in church nowadays. They improve hand eye coordination. They even make grouups of people, who would never have a common aspect about them, come together to rejoice in addiction and world changing. Video games [and Farmville] achieve what Christians and cultists work to achieve.

Let it be.