I am sick to death of hearing people talk about how games/WoW/the Internet are "addicting" and ruin relationships. Most of the criticism I've heard seems to come from fat, stupid, ignorant Americans who get all of their information and knowledge of technology from the sensationalist garbage that gets served up as news in this country. It's the same reason games always get blamed for school shootings - because the media know nothing about games or computers but still like to make up stories they can pass off as the cause of someone's actions so it looks like they know what they're talking about. Games and the Internet aren't any more addicting that anything else. If a mother is neglecting her kid because she's playing WoW, then it's because she's a lousy parent; if she didn't play WoW she'd have some other vice causing the same problem.
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I am sick to death of hearing people talk about how games/WoW/the Internet are "addicting" and ruin relationships. Most of the criticism I've heard seems to come from fat, stupid, ignorant Americans who get all of their information and knowledge of technology from the sensationalist garbage that gets served up as news in this country. It's the same reason games always get blamed for school shootings - because the media know nothing about games or computers but still like to make up stories they can pass off as the cause of someone's actions so it looks like they know what they're talking about. Games and the Internet aren't any more addicting that anything else. If a mother is neglecting her kid because she's playing WoW, then it's because she's a lousy parent; if she didn't play WoW she'd have some other vice causing the same problem.