FARM TOWN

There's this new craze going on amongst Facebook people - FARM TOWN. I don't own a Facebook account so I didn't really care much about what Farm town is all about.

But its just been so everywhere that I was really intrigued about why people are so into it. It has made common people so out of touch with the real world that they are willing to:

a) miss their meals just to "tend" to their lands;

b) willing to stay up until 2-3am to ask friends to help them harvest their produce;

c) desperately looking for internet cafes to make sure they don't have crops that are going to waste...

.... and I'm just talking about people i work with :)

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anyhow, this got me thinking.

Let's see, if people can be:

- so addicted to a game from a social networking website that really has nothing to offer (other than perhaps the occasional "stress reliever" reason);

- so worried about not being able to harvest;

- and even go to the extreme of CALCULATING what crop to plant so as to earn the most in the shortest amount of time;

- they even have their own language.

Why aren't we:

- so addicted to Jesus because He gave us everything?

- worried that we're not inviting enough people to church? (or for that matter, why don't we have enough non-Christian friends?)

- SO CALCULATING about how many hours we invest in other people's lives?

- so intimate with Jesus that we have our own love language?