Comments on: Video Games Help Make Friends, Engaged Citizens

By: Gamers = Better Citizens, part II « Just Another Meme Vector

Gamers = Better Citizens, part II « Just Another Meme Vector — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:47:02 +0000

[...] the headline from the Pew Internet Project report I mentioned a while earlier. Their research shows a few interesting [...]

By: rustedangel

rustedangel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:34:58 +0000

oh, and just in the unlikely case that you haven’t already seen this:

– http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7635404.stm

By: rustedangel

rustedangel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:46:37 +0000

Hmm… well, the flip side of this is “what kind of friends?”

Xbox live gives you a lot of time with people you don’t know, and I have met and gamed with cool people over the system, but the interaction isn’t the same quality as it is at a LAN, or over a table top. Isn’t yet, anyways.

It’s also worth noting that of those gamers faced with moral decisions in games, rather a lot choose things like the dark side, or shaping ther sim city in the image of a giant wang.

…I’m just playing devil’s advocate, though. While we wait for the interface to get closer and closer to face-to-face contact quality, 65% of teens area apparently playing video games with others in the room. Sounds social to me.