“FarmVille” vs. Real Farms [INFOGRAPHIC]

60 million FarmVille players in the world

By Shane Snow
Mashable
Sept. 2010

Excerpt:

With all those millions of Facebook and iPhone users tending to virtual crops and sharing them with friends, have you ever wondered how their toils stack up against actual real-life farmers?

How does our output of digital (and decidedly less tasty) tomatoes compare with our worldwide production of real tomatoes? And perhaps most importantly, who are these casual croppers, and are they anything like their plow-toting counterparts?

We broke it down by the numbers and put some of these FarmVille trends in perspective for you.

Estimates say FarmVille maker, Zynga, oulled in as much as 200% more net profit in 2009 than Facebook itself.
Agriculture makes up 5% of Gross World Product.

Female operated farms:
FarmVille 60%
Real Farms 13%

Average time players spend on Farmville per week:
70 minutes x 60 million users = 70 million hours.

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