{"id":8169,"date":"2014-03-21T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=8169"},"modified":"2014-03-29T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T21:01:09","slug":"what-happens-when-you-stay-off-facebook-for-awhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-happens-when-you-stay-off-facebook-for-awhile\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when you stay off Facebook for awhile?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend posted on Facebook<\/a> the other day: What happens when you stay off Facebook for a little while?\u00a0 Your FB pet draws flies, your pet’s pet runs away due to lack of food, your food burns, you get depressed and beat up by other sororities and your crops fail. LOL <\/em>She was referring to several Facebook games, such as Farmville<\/a>, Pet Society<\/a> and Sorority Life, <\/em>where you create little scenarios in virtual reality.\u00a0 You plant crops, you groom pets, you join sororities.\u00a0 When I first learned about all these games, my first thought was wow, what neat creative visualization<\/a> tools these are!\u00a0 Somewhere for people to play to feel they have some control over their lives<\/em>!\u00a0 But I didn’t know they made it so real that you could fail miserably. But then again, that’s life.\u00a0 It is what you make of it, right?<\/p>\n

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