My latest project at work is a booklet for "tweens" and I am doing some research on the subject. (Yes, at 26, I am completely out of touch.
) I came across this quote which is strangely topical:
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Thankfully, Eliza [age 9] is not addicted to video games, like the sons of various friends -- though she will play if there's nothing else to do, or if she's with a video-game-addicted boy, though this doesn't always go smoothly. For Eliza, video games are just another way to interact and connect with and relate to a friend. For boys, I've noticed, video games are a way to play video games.
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Hmm... really? I'll agree that games could be a way for me to connect with a friend, if there was a friend over to play the game with, but I was just as happy playing alone. The question it brings up for me is, are boys less likely to play video games with friends than girls are? (Some of the recollections of people in this thread suggest not. Then again, the author could be making a completely uninformed and random observation with no basis in reality...)
-emily
ps Full story
here, but the rest of it has nothing to do with video games.
