Facebook games see significant rise in popularity

Students have become increasingly more interested in harvesting crops and developing farms during the last year. But the spike in interest is not because of any agrarian factor. It’s Facebook. FarmVille, a popular Facebook game that has taken over users’ news feeds, has seen more than 118 million total installations since its release to the online world in June 2009, according to Zynga Game Network, the online gaming company that created FarmVille. Full story