Social Networking is seeing a boom and with it clings tight social gaming and its growing as rapidly as anything. I am not going to talk about social networks everywhere but stick to Zynga and its winning Farmville. While Facebook has long crossed the 350 Million mark, the game I hate to much has stepped past 70 Million farmers, I am so not calling them users!
70 Million monthly users, that is a huge number and I bet its just the beginning of it. The stats are way over my head, primarily because Zynga itself has around a 100 Million users. Plus the application for Facebook has crossed all limits with a daily user limit crossing 28.4 Million and it calls out loud to any challengers to give it a tough fight. Guess there is no one there to even think of it. Why exactly are people so crazy about it?
Now all this isn’t going to bring good news, all the load falling upon the servers and bam goes the service and users experiencing downtimes and they are worried. Phenomenal to say the least and I bet Zynga itself is doing a far better job than many social networks out there, all because of Facebook’s user base a.k.a the population. While Farmville is definitely something users love wasting spending time on but the winner is Facebook, users simply need a reason to spend time on the social network and Farmville provides them that.
I wonder when exactly is this one being left behind by another similar game. I mean Zynga is trying to create more of such social games like Fishville, etc to challenge its own self or perhaps use the success to have more of such social games and have people addicted to them creating more reasons for users to join the social networks and have existing members spend even more time. I mean if you own a Farm, you need to fish and have pets too, don’t you?
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