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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 9434216" data-attributes="member: 6804070">I understand this thought, and even think that in some cases a decrease in face-to-face interactions leads to a a less well socialized society. But it is certainly not absolute. There are many cases where online socialization far outweigh face to face.Growing up I played in person. With people from my neighborhood. Who had roughly the same demographics, experience and world view as I did. I made close and lasting relationships with these people. We grew and developed in what we now call an echo chamber. We knew our small part of the world, and that was it.In the 90's I starting enjoying play by post. And I played with people from across my nation and from Germany and Israel. People who had different experience than I did and certainly a different world view (as well as socio-economic!).Now I play mostly via VTT and regularly play with people from places like; Australia, USA, Japan, Italy, UK, South Africa, China, eastern Europe... People who come from different religions, speak different languages, grew up without the securities I did. People who's entire world view and life experiences that are different than mine.The benefits to me as a person from this socialization benefits me in every way. Something if I only ever socialized in person I would never have experienced. I agree with [USER=6801845]@Oofta[/USER] on this.</blockquote>