Alexandra Tobias. Definitely looks right in the head.

Facebook games are serious business. Especially Farmville. Proof of that is Alexandra V. Tobias from Jacksonville, Florida, who pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder. She killed her 3-month-old son because he was crying while she was playing Farmville (imagine the intense state of focus Farmville requires).

Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called Farmville on the Facebook social-networking website.

The real tragedy for her is that second-degree murder might get her life in prison and her pretty farm is gonna get overgrown. And stay like that until she dies.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PCVW6HJFWOFWYISBRBXMMWPGRI Jilly

    I can’t make a judgement on whether video game addiction is real or just a technique used by defence lawyers, I’m not a medical professional. But I’ve read a few stories like this now, where a video game is part of the story and I’m still not willing to believe that video games are inherently dangerous. If they were, I don’t see how anyone could play a video game without becoming addicted.

    But if anything is more important in your mind than the safety and wellbeing of your child, I think there has to be something very, very wrong with you to begin with. Child protection isn’t just something that gets talked about in government or by social workers. It’s an instinct, a fierce, angry feeling inside that surfaces when you see that your child might get hurt. And you feel like you’d do just about anything to stop your child getting hurt.

    That includes stopping playing FarmVille or any other game. That includes looking up from your work. That includes turning the television off, putting a book down. Nothing is more important than your child’s safety.

  • http://armannd.com/ Titus-Armand

    Video game addiction is real and can happen to anyone (more or less), but video games are not inherently dangerous. It’s the lack of balance in the lives of some people that creates the possibility of games (or any other activity) becoming dangerous. But yes, I do agree with your thoughts.