Does anyone else feel bad about "clobbering" snakes on Facebook's Frontierville Game?

[lusciousdragon]

Does anyone else feel bad about "clobbering" snakes on Facebook's Frontierville Game?
Everytime that little snake pops up it says "click to clobber" and then the frontier person procedes to beat it with a club numerous times until dead. Then the person gets coins for doing so. I know it is just a game, but being a person with pet snakes it makes me feel bad. It might as well be telling me to clobber puppies.

[Sammy412]

ROFL.....that's why I quit playing the game........kinda silly, but I didn't like it......not just the snakes but the other animals you had to "clobber", too....LOL!

[rabernet]

No - not any more - but I don't post the status that I clobbered one.

[sarahlovesmiike]

At first I wouldn't play it for that exact reason. Then I realized I was being silly, so I became kinda addicted to it :p

[olstyn]

I avoid facebook as though it were the black plague, so I didn't know this game existed until I saw this thread. That said, it's just a game, so it shouldn't really bother people too much, I suppose. It's not like it's singling out snakes for clobbering, right? I mean, if it were portraying them as the *only* things that might warrant a clobbering, that might be different...

[dc4teg]

ive played it and my favorite part is clobbering the snakes... lol but it dosent matter... is just a game...

[Stacykins]

I never got caught up by the Farmville and other "villes" on facebook. But the first time I saw someone 'clobbered' a snake, I was definitely annoyed. It is just continuing the spread of the idea that if you see a snake, you need to bash its head in.

Some people feel it is a great idea if they see a snake, venemous or not, it is getting smashed with a shovel. I've been told that point blank by people. When my mother posted on facebook that she was excited for finding a Massasauga rattler on a walk, she got nearly a dozen posts asking why she didn't drop a rock on its head...

I always inform people like that though, for every snake you kill, there are ten more you didn't see. Especially if they do it to "make the yard safe for the kids". My snake phobic neighbor smashed a snake for that purpose, and was very happy with himself. I went over to a pile of old wood and brush on the edge of his yard, moved a few logs, and picked up a few displaced garter snakes...he was not happy.

[lusciousdragon]

I avoid facebook as though it were the black plague, so I didn't know this game existed until I saw this thread. That said, it's just a game, so it shouldn't really bother people too much, I suppose. It's not like it's singling out snakes for clobbering, right? I mean, if it were portraying them as the *only* things that might warrant a clobbering, that might be different...

It gives equal clobbering to other species. Bear, gopher, and fox too.

[sarahlovesmiike]

Actually you scare the bear, but it definitely dies.

[lusciousdragon]

Actually you scare the bear, but it definitely dies.

Maybe you scare it to death? It laughs so hard at you trying to clobber it that it falls over dead.