If you play any Facebook game at all, you would know that these are all just time wasters. Well, FarmVille players have done the game and community proud by donating over US$1 million o Haiti, a country that was wrecked by an earthquake last year. Rehabilitation of the country needs lots of money and people from around the world have chipped in, including FarmVille players.

FarmVille players did not have to donate real cash if they didn’t want to but they could buy one of those limited edition Haiti Relief Fund items for their game, and support the cause indirectly. For most of us chronic players, we didn’t even have to pay with actual money because we have collected some Facebook credits which we could use towards the purchase of such in-game merchandise.

So it looks like it is not that pointless after all tending our virtual farm. People from all over the world, by just sitting in front of the computer, could lend a helping hand to those affected by the earthquake in Haiti.