Today's milestone in virtual world activity infecting the real: A Brooklyn assemblyman has become so focused on caring for his virtual city in the Facebook game CityVille, he's been lax on helping care for, you know, Brooklyn:
A comparison of Boyland’s Facebook activity with a record of Assembly sessions shows the scandal-scarred pol logging on when he is supposed to be doing the people’s business... He logged on to CityVille at least seven times that day, while the Assembly was still in session. He missed the Assembly’s sessions on March 23 and 24, but appears to have spent the entire night between them playing CityVille, posting game updates seven times between midnight and 8 a.m.
Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan.
The people's business is sometimes hours of irrelevant yakking about matters where the decision is a foregone conslusion, and I wouldn't begrudge my representatives a little multitasking. It's not as if Cityville requires any great degree of concentration.
Now if he's playing Team Fortress with voice and disturbing the other legislators while they're trying to nap, that's another matter.
Posted by: Arcadia Codesmith | Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 01:30 PM