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App Watch: Facebook's 11 Million Farmers

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 31, 2009 at 7:03 am PT

Had the urge to abandon city life and tend a cornfield instead? Millions of others are getting their agricultural fix on Facebook, thanks to the fast-growing game FarmVille. FarmVille, which social-gaming company Zynga launched on June 19, is a free Facebook app that lets members grow produce and raise animals.