Internet Gaming, Can it go to far? Options

[Spaced4SimonPegg]

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[cougar18]

Our next topic was inspired by a documentary called Life 2.0 on the OWN channel.

If anyone has any experiences with Second Life or know someone that has an addiction to online gaming or if you just have thoughts on it, please post them here or email us at nerdgirls@comicrelated.com

Know quite a few folks who got addicted to Wow, eventually realising that they had to step away from it or else risking getting kicked out of college. Our lecturer told us about someone who, years ago, was literally considered a rock star in Wow, because he could supply people with weapons and armour, as well as having a very high levelled character in the game.
Yet for anyone who was not playing the game, he was just a regular student. No major celebrity, just a regular dude who was going to college.

I do hear of people getting really upset and depressed over not being allowed join a guild/ faction in the game. Some get suicidal, some go the extra step.

[jaydee74]

I used to do Second Life. It got in the way of First Life so while I still have an avatar on there, I don't use it that much anymore but it was kind of fun when I did.

[Decapitated_Dan]

I was addicted to Framville. I would come into work every morning about 10 minutes early to pick and plant my crops each day. For no reason at all, everyday into work, plant and pick, then work. I feel ashamed

[Spaced4SimonPegg]

I was addicted to Framville. I would come into work every morning about 10 minutes early to pick and plant my crops each day. For no reason at all, everyday into work, plant and pick, then work. I feel ashamed

I was the same way! I got my friend at work hooked on it and she would give me her FB info so I could manage her crops on the weekends because she didn't have internet access at her house.

[Cary]

I think just like anything else, you can definitely take it too far. I've spent 15 hours a day for months on end playing video games, and then walked away from it for year afterwards. It all depends on the game really, and how much I'm enjoying it. I've had internet connections terminated because they said I was violating terms of service for leaving the connection on too long. (back in the days of dial up, for you youngsters) Honestly the reason I've stayed away form WoW is because I know I'll jump in with both feet and have a hard time getting out again. Self control is a wonderful thing.

[jaydee74]

I used to play a lot of those Facebook games as well like Farmville and other Zynga games. I got too obsessed with those and had to cut them off. I do play The Clone Wars Adventures from time to time when I have time. I don't watch a whole lot of television and between work and the things I have to do at home, I need something that entertains me. This is it.

[cougar18]

I used to play a lot of those Facebook games as well like Farmville and other Zynga games. I got too obsessed with those and had to cut them off. I do play The Clone Wars Adventures from time to time when I have time. I don't watch a whole lot of television and between work and the things I have to do at home, I need something that entertains me. This is it.

Oh God, Farmvile. Or that Casino game, or that Restaurant or Gangster one. I do not play them, nor do I use FB. Just seems like far too much time wasting. I mean, walk into a college and go into the library, and you would see all these students feverishly typing away on the computers in the labs. But instead of doing college work, they are actually chatting on Facebook, or playing those games.
Even in college classes, when they are meant to be listening to the lecturer, one can see them typing on FB or playing those games. That said, you have to be sitting behind them to notice.

Eventually the college decided to block Facebook due to people abusing the privilege of accessing it. Now, what I mean is, if one were to walk into any room, be it the library, or an empty classroom with computers. They would all be occupied with people all talking and conversing on facebook, and if someone had a deadline they needed to get work done for, they had no access to a computer unless they had their own laptop. One could always use their own laptop to access the wi-fi, and get on FB through that, since that was not blocked. But accessing it through the college desktops was.
Well, alot of people acted like Crack addicts with their supply cut off.

And, believe it or not, in addition to a number of factors, someone I knew also dropped out of college due to that. She was a Facebook addict, in addition to other social networks. She no longer wanted to go when FB and other social networks were blocked, and dropped out of college afte one year. She was 21.

[jaydee74]

I liked those games and internet gaming can be fun if you can do it in moderation and I think that for the most part, people don't know how to do moderation. It helps that I have a ton of responsibilities that don't allow me to play games as much as I would like so when I do, I know it's because I have some free time and it's my reward for doing all of the daily chores that's called life.