{"id":6205,"date":"2010-05-31T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"farmville-makes-time-s-top-50-worst-inventions-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6205-farmville-makes-time-s-top-50-worst-inventions-list","title":{"rendered":"Farmville makes Time\u2019s Top 50 Worst Inventions list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmville is pretty much the hottest thing on Facebook. Which isn&rsquo;t admittedly saying very much for a site that&rsquo;s mostly about getting back in touch with everyone you hated at school and pretending you&rsquo;re interested in their stupid lives now. Especially when, statistically, 20% of them are spamming your news feed with their Farmville updates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, Time&rsquo;s just included Farmville in their list of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/completelist\/0,29569,1991915,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"> 50 Worst Inventions<\/a>, slagging off the dastardly application for being &ldquo;hardly even a game &mdash; it&#8217;s more a series of mindless chores on a digital farm, requiring the endless clicking of a mouse to plant and harvest crops&rdquo;, as well as the &ldquo;many hours of lost productivity&rdquo; it&rsquo;s responsible for.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this sounds reasonable enough until you stop and consider that, really, &ldquo;a series of mindless chores&rdquo;, &ldquo;endless clicking of a mouse&rdquo;, and &ldquo;many hours of lost productivity&rdquo; describes the fundamental mechanics of just about every game ever. In the vernacular, I think this works out to a blandly rhetorical &ldquo;lol?&rdquo;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?6149-Time-Magazine-includes-Farmville-in-list-of-50-worst-inventions&amp;p=231391#post231391\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Farmville<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your latest crop of virtual tomatoes isn\u2019t changing the world or anything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}