Cheating in FB games is okay for gamers!

Toronto: A majority of people who play Facebook game like FarmVille resort to cheating to advance their own scores and they think that it is all right to cheat in a social network game, new research suggests.

The study involved 151 social media gamers between the ages of 18 and 70. The majority of survey respondents reported at least some kind of cheating:

they admitted to playing social network games to help friends (65 percent) or family members (58.3 per cent) advance their scores, and to asking friends (52.1 per cent) or family (50 per cent) to play a social network game in order to advance their own scores, and to adding strangers (53.9 per cent) to do the same.

A high number of participants admitted to purchasing currency to advance play (40.2 per cent), creating multiple ac- counts (31.1 per cent) and logging into someone else's account (20.6 per cent).

The use of cheat codes -- a means of cheating requiring greater technical skill - - was a much rarer practice among partic- ipants, only 8.2 per cent admitted to doing so.

Not surprisingly, the study participants were not quick to criticise various forms of cheating in Facebook games. As can be seen in the included table, the harshest condemnation was reserved for the type of cheating that requires technical know how.