What the hell is Farmville & what kind of hold does it have?

[Anne Bonney]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39896533/ns ... nd_courts/

Baby killed for interrupting mom's Facebook time




She told officials she shook the boy, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A north Florida mother has pleaded guilty to shaking her baby to death after the boy's crying interrupted her game on Facebook.

Alexandra V. Tobias pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday and remains jailed.

The Florida Times-Union reports that she told investigators she was angered because the boy was crying while she was playing the game FarmVille.

The paper also reports that she told investigators she shook the boy, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again.

She will be sentenced in December. State guidelines call for 25 to 50 years, but a prosecutor said it could be shorter than that.  :eek:

A telephone message and an e-mail sent by The Associated Press to her attorney weren't immediately returned.

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[Oscar]

Farmville is an internet based "Sims" relocated out in the peaceful countryside we all dream us to in a globalized world where people are shooting at us when we forget to shave and start looking like a biker.

If this terrible tragedy had happen past year 2012, she would have been sent to a place where she would have been given electroshock or been imposed to boot camp every day. It is how people can cure "Internet Addiction Disorder" or the closely related FAD aka. Facebook Addiction Disorder.

But we don't write year 2012 yet. DSM has not hit the streets with tons of new diagnoses, so for now it is only child neglect. Still a tragedy but an old-fashioned one just as when parents are caught up in prayers or drugs so they forget that they have a child.