Woman Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session
gizmodo.com
gizmodo.com
Anyone who really thinks Farmville or social networks had anything to do with this incident needs to learn about what it means to have a mental illness.
This is a tragic incident that could have been prevented if people had understood and identified what was really going on with this woman. I'm extremely uncomfortable with this post's existence.
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Edit: I'm extremely uncomfortable with this LINK's existence. Gizmodo is being stupid with this article.
Mental illness/child neglect/child abuse are all tragic things that exist independently of media.
If the title of this article were "Study shows link between social media and depression" it would be a different story.
Right now the gizmodo article is titled something outrageous just to illicit hits to their site.
Disclaimer: I've never played Farmville. I assume it's non-violent gameplay.
The only thing violent about farmville is how zynga relentlessly pursues your email list and real life dollars in exchange for worthless worthless digital items for your farm.
Zynga does do a bit of charity awareness and fundraisers in the game (the Haiti Earthquake relief fund, for example) but the best way to get blocked from everyone's news feed is to post a bunch of farmville stuff on your profile.
We are cutting our-self with physical world, and want to live life in virtual world day by day.
Facebook and other social networking sites are like world of "Matrix", where we want to control virtual world and want to go away from sorrow/grief of real life.