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If not, is it because the people playing these games can spend up to 70 hours per week sitting in front of their computers? Well what if I told you that some of these people “…aren’t addicted to playing video games. It wouldn’t do the same thing for them. They’re communication addicted. They’re addicted to being able to go out and find people twenty-four hours a day and have interesting conversations with them” (9).
In our society we often make the judgment that people who spend large amounts of their time playing online games are social recluses. I think that this is far from the truth. It has been postulated by an increasing number of people that many gamers are not addicted to the game, but rather they are addicted to being social. I believe that it is our technology society that has given these gamers a new medium in which to communicate by and I would like to examine not only some interactions that they have online, but also what may drive them to do so.
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