Due to FarmVille, Council Member Voted Off!

Ok so we all know how addicting FarmVille can be on Facebook. For those of you who have not heard of it or played it before FarmVille is the most popular app on Facebook and winner of "Best Social Game" at the 2010 Game Developer Choice Awards. Games like it can be particularly addictive because of its real-time game mechanics. Crops are going to mature and even die whether or not players are logged in. If they want to maximize their yield, they better be ready to bring in their crops the second they're ready to harvest. Just how addicting can it be to Dimitar Kerin who was administrating the second-largest city in Bulgaria. He was voted off a committee assignment by the Plovdiv City Council for his inability to stop tending his virtual crops on the Facebook game during meetings. Yet he was not alone in his obsession! There were other council members having the same problem.

Council chairman Ilko Iliev had previously warned several of them that the new wireless network and laptops provided to all council members were not to be used for playing games on social media sites during budget meetings. Kerin was singled out for continuing to manage his farm and milk his cows despite the warnings. Kerin told them that he "needs more time for his virtual far," After this being said council member Todor Hristov made the proposal to oust Kerin. This is so funny to me, how can some seriously be so addicted to something like this? To where your whole life can be decided by a game!