Farmville?

**DISCLAIMER**I am NOT bashing,merely ranting.

If you don't have facebook,and don't know what farmville is,it's in extremly popular application alot of people play.My question is,what is so much fun about it?And why all the hype over a fake farm,when there's real farms that real people take care of.It doesn't seem like it's that much fun because all you do is pick stuff,and sell it.It's not that entertaining.1 of my friends profiles is filled with nothing but farmville posts.It gets extremly annoying,and reptitive when all you see is farmville posts.I see at least 5 posts a day on my feeds about farmville.Mostly about people finding a lost animal that wandered onto their "farm."