{"id":1531,"date":"2010-07-01T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/do-we-play-farmville-because-were-polite\/"},"modified":"2010-07-01T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T12:32:00","slug":"do-we-play-farmville-because-were-polite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/do-we-play-farmville-because-were-polite\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we play Farmville because we&#8217;re polite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/6HE9RvX3nHg\/do-we-play-farmville.html\">Do we play Farmville because we&#8217;re polite?<\/a>: &#8220;<center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"farmville.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.boingboing.net\/farmville.jpg?resize=570%2C456\" width=\"570\" height=\"456\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/59452\">Mental Floss<\/a> clues us into an interesting article on MediaCommons about why we play Farmville \u2014 basically, because we&#8217;ve been trained to not be able to ignore social obligations. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The secret to Farmville&#8217;s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics. Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a web of social obligations. When users log into Facebook, they are reminded that their neighbors have sent them gifts, posted bonuses on their walls, and helped with each others&#8217; farms. In turn, they are obligated to return the courtesies. As the French sociologist Marcel Mauss tells us, gifts are never free: they bind the giver and receiver in a loop of reciprocity. It is rude to refuse a gift, and ruder still to not return the kindness.[11] We play Farmville, then, because we are trying to be good to one another. We play Farmville because we are polite, cultivated people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t play Farmville, but I do keep my Facebook page pretty app-free because I fear getting entangled in such obligations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/content\/cultivated-play-farmville\">Cultivated Play: Farmville<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ef558b84d52c1864fa1ed331a3e57841&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ef558b84d52c1864fa1ed331a3e57841&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.triggit.com\/px?u=pheedo&#038;rtv=TechCons&#038;rtv=p28925&#038;rtv=f7604\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/6HE9RvX3nHg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we play Farmville because we&#8217;re polite?: &#8220; Mental Floss clues us into an interesting article on MediaCommons about why we play Farmville \u2014 basically, because we&#8217;ve been trained to not be able to ignore social obligations. The secret to Farmville&#8217;s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics. 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