[LONELINESS] Video-Games in Direct Correlation

[NoRain :( 🗕 🗗 🗙]

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The irony of being less connected than before after being more connected than ever

[St✩rlight]

They're lonely because they never feel like doing anything most of the time.

[vkobe]

i seriously doubt atari, nintendo, sega were able to do that, even ps would be unable to do what you suggest

i say it is more because internet, tv

[NoRain :( 🗕 🗗 🗙]

Originally posted by Starlight:

They're lonely because they never feel like doing anything most of the time.

Not what the data shows.

I don't think people are lonely because they don't feel like doing anything- I think they're lonely because they feel like doing something else, which is a usually a solitary activity. If they were truly doing nothing, they'd be content staring at a wall for that time- I doubt the 50%+ of people reporting loneliness would prefer what's the equivalent to solitary confinement without leisure

[NoRain :( 🗕 🗗 🗙]

Originally posted by vkobe:

i seriously doubt atari, nintendo, sega were able to do that, even ps would be unable to do what you suggest

i say it is more because internet, tv

You can doubt it- but that doesn't change the numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcqCOVFn9bw

Even if it's another kind of escapism- it's still escapism. Videogames are just now the most common media-based escapism.

I however will say that we probably wouldn't be seeing the reverse Flynn effect[www.popularmechanics.com] if people were reading instead of gaming

[St✩rlight]

Originally posted by NoRain :( 🗕 🗗 🗙:

Originally posted by Starlight:

They're lonely because they never feel like doing anything most of the time.

Not what the data shows.

I don't think people are lonely because they don't feel like doing anything- I think they're lonely because they feel like doing something else, which is a usually a solitary activity. If they were truly doing nothing, they'd be content staring at a wall for that time- I doubt the 50%+ of people reporting loneliness would prefer what's the equivalent to solitary confinement without leisure

That's when I meant when people say let's do something and they say no I don't feel like it