The no Farmville rule.
For those of you out of touch, like me, Farmville is an application on Facebook that enables couch potatoes to become pretend farmers.
I don't get it either.
Dimitar Kerin gets it. What Mr. Kerin doesn't get is his job. He is a councilman in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city, not a farmer in some different time and space continuum. Novinite, the official Bulgarian news agency, reports that he has been kicked off a committee for his inability to stop tending his virtual crops on the Facebook game during meetings.
Games like Farmville 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. Even if it's during a city council meeting.
Except unlike real farming it is not real. It is a game.
Councilman Kerin found playing a game more important than serving the people of Plovdiv. He would fit in nicely at an NDP or Tory caucus meeting I do think.
WFDS
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