Farmville to Fishing

Well it would be an injustice not to write about this game. I really thought social networking sites were very hyped and highly misused and still think sometimes its a waste of time. But this recent application really made me feel good in limits about this newest facebook craze: farmville.
The young generation taking so keen an interest in farming is a wonderful thing to see. Yes, the lingo is definitely surprising when someone says over the phone, "Give me 10 minutes, I need to cut the strawberries and harvest a new crop before I come." Lol...
This is a perfect use of gaming I mean as far as I can see. Its a constructive game as compared to those violent games. Still by far Mario and NFS are the best :) Before this people would get all info from books, but since new generation is techie, Farmville provides really good source for information. Not only does it give a better understanding of farming related things, its really good in the sense that it develops a sense of planning,responsibility and having fun at the same time progressing through it. Also at no cost of harming anyone or losing anything. Yes, people do go overboard with it once a while by buying each others farms and playing it on a full screen projectors etc ;) It also provides information on energy conservation. Its a complete ecosystem in itself. Quite an impressive game and kudos to the person who changed the shape of gaming on FB.

It's like using "Alice" to learn a programming language.

I would be interested in other such games. Recently I made friends with some new grads at UAB, who stumbled across a fish tank when they went to get some furniture from a family in UAB who was moving out. They have been since a semester now setting up the fish tank, buying fishes online, breeding them, and selling the new ones or exchanging with someone elses fishes. They even exchange snail for moss and food for fish and fish frys (young ones of fish) for some aquarium plants :) It works like barter system :) The most interesting I thought was the way we could buy fishes online and they actually are sent by post. It was scary, even I waited liked 3 days eagerly wanting to see how they arrive. But it was all quite well shipped. It has been an interesting semester of knowing how fish keeping works. Its not as simple as it looks and fishes are not quite boring either :P..We actually did track the variations of behaviour, color, response to light, dark etc. You just can't get enough of it.
I wish for such friends of mine, they would have an application too. Maybe I should ask my friends to actually suggest that app on facebook or make one..wats say Gau-Jui?
It would be wonderful to get a feel of such things before you go into it since it might get overwhelming. So good job with the apps!