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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4368268" data-attributes="member: 710">We once made a workshop on computer games at my university. Here's what I took from it:Computer games can be &quot;unhealthy&quot; if kids spend most of their time with them instead of friends. To become a &quot;social&quot; being, you need social contact, especially in your formative years. Playing and talking with people teaches you empathy. If you never train in that, you might lose something. The big question might be if online contact can train empathy too, and if books and TV are just as bad. That dosen't tell us anything about adults. And it doesn't say that computer games are purely bad. They have positive side effects as well. Like everything, it must be taken in moderation. (And as a side note, I wonder if a lot of our &quot;problems&quot; hail from the fact that there just aren't as many kids around as there used to be - before the invention of the baby pill, families were larger, and kids had their siblins to play with it. Well, there are always advantages and disadvantages to a new &quot;technology&quot;.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4368268, member: 710"] We once made a workshop on computer games at my university. Here's what I took from it: Computer games can be "unhealthy" if kids spend most of their time with them instead of friends. To become a "social" being, you need social contact, especially in your formative years. Playing and talking with people teaches you empathy. If you never train in that, you might lose something. The big question might be if online contact can train empathy too, and if books and TV are just as bad. That dosen't tell us anything about adults. And it doesn't say that computer games are purely bad. They have positive side effects as well. Like everything, it must be taken in moderation. (And as a side note, I wonder if a lot of our "problems" hail from the fact that there just aren't as many kids around as there used to be - before the invention of the baby pill, families were larger, and kids had their siblins to play with it. Well, there are always advantages and disadvantages to a new "technology".) [/QUOTE]

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