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fishy071 posted...

I feel the same way. I got addicted to video games, and they have become a big distraction for me.

I can't argue this point, I've known people who took things too far, playing Warcraft all day and they ended up doing bad in school and having to drop out.

I do think parents need to limit how much time kids and young adults spend on online games, they are addictive. But IMO the answer is the same as alcohol: you don't ban it, you have to train them to have responsible attitudes toward them. Because otherwise, if they have no exposure at all, they dive in and have no understanding, no frame of reference, etc.

I had actually played WoW for a great many years, and ended up quitting not because I didn't like the game, but because it was consuming too much of my free time, and there was other stuff I wanted to do (but wasn't).