FarmViller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FarmVillers
Etymology: From FarmVille + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My roommates and I have become diehard FarmVillers.
ref: 2009 November 19, Elena Shufelt, “Farming it all away: One writer examines what’s it like to be down on the Facebook farm”, in Reporter, Minnesota State University, Mankato:
text: 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.
ref: 2010 March 23, Sarah Bradshaw, “Facebook seen as tool for reaching tomorrow’s farmers”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, 225th year, number 189, page 5B:
text: "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.
ref: 2010 March 25, Rajini Vaidyanathan, “Down on the FarmVille”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2010:
text: FarmVillers total something like 1% of the world’s population!
ref: 2010 April 23, Bill Scott, “Discombobulating thingamajigs”, in Daily Herald-Tribune, Grande Prairie, Alta., page 42:
text: In addition to marathon planting and harvesting, a Farmviller^([sic]) can earn coin and experience points by helping friends with their farms.
ref: 2010 April 25, Mark LaFlamme, “Ah, life in Farmville”, in Sun Journal, Lewiston, Me., section b, page 4:
text: 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.
ref: 2010 June, Katie Mackay, “Farmville: Are we addicted?”, in Impact, number 204, page 60:
text: 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”.
ref: 2011 Q3, “GoogleVille: Will Google+ Games Be Anything Like Their Facebook Counterparts?”, in Control: Magazine for the Games Industry, 7th international edition, page 21, column 2:
text: Farmvillers^([sic]) must plant something called a Serve Money Tree to see a sign-up promotion for the card, linked to a Serve account.
ref: 2012 May 22, Catherine New, “FarmVille Gets Its Own American Express Prepaid Card”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2019:
text: 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).
ref: 2014, Benjamin Burroughs, “Facebook and FarmVille: A Digital Ritual Analysis of Social Gaming”, in Games and Culture, →DOI:
text: 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.
ref: 2015 October 15, FarmShare, “FarmShare White Paper”, in Medium, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2015:
text: 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])
ref: 2020 January 7, Rachel Kraus, “Yes, Hackers Might Have Your Apple ID, But Don't Stress Too Much”, in Mashable, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2020:
glosses: A player of the agriculture-simulation social network game FarmVille.
wikipedia: FarmVille