Anti-Social Video Gaming - charalanahzard
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I’ve never understood this massive misconception. When I posted a blog about CoD a while back, I got a few replies saying videogames are anti-social blahblahblah who cares blahblah. Honestly, videogames are the most social thing I do, far more social than Tumblr, Facebook, anything.
I have difficulty even comprehending what friends do if they don’t have an Xbox or a Ps3 and they’re at home. Do you watch movies in silence or re-runs of Friends? Because my friends and I play Halo online, talking to new and different people, talking to each other the entire time. I fail to see how this is anti-social when it is, hands down, the most social thing to do at someones house.
Groups of friends I hang out with get drunk and play MvC3 all night, as opposed to sitting around bitching about the people who aren’t there. I think videogames are considered anti-social because, if you play them by yourself, you are… evidently by yourself. This is the exact same as watching TV, writing on Tumblr or being on Facebook. “HERP BUT FACEBOOK IS A SOCIAL NETWORK DERP.” So is Xbox Live. I only play videogames when I have nothing else to do/constantly, but I would never put an Xbox before talking, and neither would anyone else I know.
I’m rarely even alone, but if I am, I’ll play Xbox and usually be talking to someone over XBL the entire time I’m playing a campaign. If not, I’m playing live and talking to people in my team. Don’t bad-mouth people who play videogames for being anti-social when it’s one of the most social technologies in existance. I wouldn’t even put ‘IMO’ in there - it legitimately is, no doubt about it. I don’t understand this at all.
It makes you a fat loser if you play videogames because people assume you don’t have friends. Bullshit, my GoW clan in grade 9 were some of the coolest friends I ever had, it didn’t matter that I never saw them face to face. They made me laugh ridiculously hard, I enjoyed their technological company. None of them were fat, all of them had an abundance of friends, and they simply made more by being online.
Why Video Games Are Not Anti-Social
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