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Priceless

From a friend's Facebook page.

LMAO.

Facebook Hiatus

So somehow I talked myself into a one month self imposed Facebook hiatus.
A friend of mine, who is anti-social media as one can get [don't get me started], claimed that I have a Facebook problem...claiming that it's more like an addiction of sorts.

Cue the repeated rolling my eyes.

Anyways I took that blanket statement as a direct challenge so I stated that I did not in fact have a Facebook problem and that I could very easily stay away for one whole month.

That was January 1st.

Now the emails from well intentioned and concerned friends are coming, wondering as to my sudden and abrupt absence from the world of Facebook...no word of a lie.

Here are just a few examples:

• Everything OK? I haven't seen any YMC updates lately...hope you had a great holiday break..
• How are you? You've been suspiciously absent from FB. Everything ok?
• Just thought I'd check in...haven't seen any of your witty updates on Facebook...everything ok?
• You've been quietly lately...that's not like you.
  

Ummm yeah about that...maybe [that's a maybe] I do spent a lot of time on Facebook BUT it's not an addiction. Really.

Oh February 1st hurry up already...I am feeling the start of Facebook withdrawal.

Farmville....

I admit that I got sucked into the Facebook 'Farmville' vortex, to the point where perhaps it has become slightly an addiction of sorts...yes it seems that this city girl is apparently a virtual farming girl at heart.

But let's make it clear that this love of farming exists only in the virtual world...I mean my fab shoe collection would never cut it in the corn fields.

But I digress.

My husband, who enjoys mocking me on a daily basis for my 'harvest, plow, seed' rituals, sent me this link to an article on Good.is

It was written by Peter Smith. A food columnist who collects rumblings from the collective gut, around the dinner table, and across the food world.

He wrote an article on the game Farmville and he believes it is a detriment to the farming industry...

What Does Farmville Mean for Farmers?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Mr. Smith made quite the leap with the views in his article...

Scott Todd who left this comment put it best:

"I can only hope and pray that our country hasn't sunken to such a level of idiocy that a Facebook game can actually affect the entire agricultural industry. It's disheartening enough to know that a "journalist" actually wasted the time to write an article about this worthless garbage. Maybe next week we'll hear about how the excess of taxis in NYC has spawned a breakout of jaundice in the Big Apple. After all, yellow paint should result in yellow people..."

Props to Mr. Todd.

Now I have a crop to go harvest.

[Image credits: Good.is]