This game is really fun, so make sure you are good to all the other players and don't try and deceive anyone. Take your time and learn from the high level players. Some times I will look up the top 10 players to see what their page, horses and EC is like. Even the top 1000 players have so much to offer. There are really good players here.

MysDee (golden apple gifted to me by "grholden"-congrat her for being such an awesome player! My daughter LOVES this coat!

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Thanks to all the top level players for congratulating me and so many other players! I love seeing high level players congratulations so I can go to their pages and look at what they are doing to be so successful at this game. It takes A LOT of time and energy…and sometimes even real money. Great job everyone!!

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From tcanuel's page.

For all my friends, whether close or casual, just because. One of the longest posts I will ever do... and the most real, too. Everyone will go through some hard times at some point. Life isn't easy. Just something to think about...did you know the people that are the strongest are usually the most sensitive? Did you know the people who exhibit the most kindness are the first to get mistreated? Did you know the ones who take care of others all the time are usually the ones who... need it the most? Did you know the three hardest things to say are I love you, I'm sorry, and Help me? Sometimes just because a person looks happy, you have to look past their smile and see how much pain they may be in. To all my friends who are going through some issues right now--let's start an intention avalanche. We all need positive intentions right now. May I ask my friends wherever you might be, to kindly copy and paste this status for one hour to give a moment of support to all those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, worries of any kind and just need to know that someone cares. Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune. I hope to see this on the walls of all my friends just for moral support. I know some will!! I did it for a friend and you can too. 

DO NOT BULLY ANYONE

for more info click Bullying statistics and NoBullying and StopBullying

• One out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year. 
• 64 percent of children who were bullied did not report it; only 36 percent reported the bullying. 
• More than half of bullying situations (57 percent) stop when a peer intervenes on behalf of the student being bullied. 
• School-based bullying prevention programs decrease bullying by up to 25%. 
• The reasons for being bullied reported most often by students were looks (55%), body shape (37%), and race (16%). 

Effects of Bullying

• Students who experience bullying are at increased risk for poor school adjustment, sleep difficulties, anxiety, and depression. 
• Students who engage in bullying behavior are at increased risk for academic problems, substance use, and violent behavior later in adolescence and adulthood.
• Students who are both targets of bullying and engage in bullying behavior are at greater risk for both mental health and behavior problems than students who only bully or are only bullied. 
• Students who experience bullying are twice as likely as non-bullied peers to experience negative health effects such as headaches and stomachaches. 

Cyberbullying

• 19.6% of high school students in the US report being bullied at school in the past year. 14.8% reported being bullied online.
• 90% of teens who report being cyberbullied have also been bullied offline.

Bullying and Suicide

• There is a strong association between bullying and suicide-related behaviors, but this relationship is often mediated by other factors, including depression and delinquency.
• Students who bully others, are bullied, or witness bullying are more likely to report high levels of suicide-related behavior than students who report no involvement in bullying. 
• Students victimized by their peers were 2.4 times more likely to report suicidal ideation and 3.3 times more likely to report a suicide attempt than youth who reported not being bullied. 
• Students who are both bullied and engage in bullying behavior are the highest risk group for adverse outcomes. 
• Suicide is not a natural response to being bullied. This myth has the dangerous potential to normalize suicide behavior in response to suicide and thereby create copycat behavior among students 

Interventions

• Bullied youth were most likely to report that actions that accessed support from others made a positive difference. 
• Actions aimed at changing the behavior of the bullying youth (fighting, getting back at them, telling them to stop, etc.) were rated as more likely to make things worse. 
• Students reported that the most helpful things teachers can do are: listen to the student, check in with them afterwards to see if the bullying stopped, and give the student advice. 
• Students reported that the most harmful things teachers can do are: tell the student to solve the problem themselves, tell the student that the bullying wouldn’t happen if they acted differently, ignored what was going on, or tell the student to stop tattling. 
• As reported by students who have been bullied, the self-actions that had some of the most negative impacts (telling the person to stop/how I feel, walking away, pretending it doesn’t bother me) are often used by youth and often recommended to youth. 

Bystanders

• Bystanders’ beliefs in their social self-efficacy were positively associated with defending behavior and negatively associated with passive behavior from bystanders – i.e. if students believe they can make a difference, they’re more likely to act. 
• Students who experience bullying report that allying and supportive actions from their peers (such as spending time with the student, talking to him/her, helping him/her get away, or giving advice) were the most helpful actions from bystanders. 
• Students who experience bullying are more likely to find peer actions helpful than educator or self-actions.