# Farmville Is a Serious Game! **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 28, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040 "2010-10-28T04:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/1 "2010-10-28T04:39:15Z")
> A 22 year-old woman from Jacksonsville, Florida has pleaded guilty to killing her baby son over a game of…Farmville. > > Alexandra V. Tobias says her three-month old child, Dylan Lee Edmondson, had been crying while she was trying to play the popular Facebook casual game. This angered Tobias, who told authorities that she shook the baby, had a cigarette to calm herself down, then shook him again. It’s believed he “may have hit his head during the shaking”. > > Dylan’s death was classified as second-degree murder, a charge that carries the possibility of a life sentence in prison. > > [Jacksonville mom who shook baby for interrupting computer game pleads to murder](http://jacksonville.com/david-hunt/2010-10-27/story/jacksonville-mom-who-shook-baby-interrupting-computer-game-pleads-2nd) [Florida Times-Union] > > Send an email to the author of this post at [plunkett@kotaku.com](mailto:plunkett@kotaku.com). > Republished from [http://kotaku.com](http://kotaku.com/) ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/2 "2010-10-28T05:31:25Z")
Farmville is a footnote in the story. I hate the way it’s sensationalized for headlines. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/3 "2010-10-28T05:32:03Z")
Think they allow farmville in jail? ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/4 "2010-10-28T06:25:14Z")
someone is definitely going to harvest her crops… giggity ---
**Author:** ![ubengineering](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ubengineering/32/5171_2.png) [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/5 "2010-10-28T07:04:31Z")
im glad i dont have a facebook ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/6 "2010-10-28T07:07:56Z")
How did I know this was going to be Florida? ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/7 "2010-10-28T07:12:55Z")
On another note, Zynga which is the company who created farmville, is already worth more than Electronic Arts. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/8 "2010-10-28T20:05:19Z")
> [@boxxa](#): > > On another note, Zynga which is the company who created farmville, is already worth more than Electronic Arts. that’s incredible eh? The guys that made angry birds got sold to EA for $20M… also… would smash ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/9 "2010-10-29T00:01:19Z")
She looks like she has Down Syndrome ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/farmville-is-a-serious-game/162040/10 "2010-10-29T06:13:49Z")
well, she DID just get thrown in jail for murdering her own child…did you expect her to put on her best smile?