I realised the other day that i play World of Warcraft for around 11 hours a day. I get up, drink coffee, log on. Interspersed with food and more coffee, that's my day 'til late at night. Fine, I go on msn and various sites but that's not really social interaction is it? Not in the way that a generation or so ago would recognise anyway. But it is, of course, normal for my generation, thousands, millions perhaps of youths with little 'irl' social interaction, spending their days playing wow or other games, locked away in their rooms in body, but virtually spreading their wings.
It's different from where we're supposed to be. Hell, at my age we're practically encouraged by society to go out get drunk, take drugs and have casual sex. We have a signification proportion of a generation not taking risks, just drinking up electronic substances instead of real ones. This isn't fun is it?
We're practically turning middle aged before our time.
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And that my friend, is why WoW is evil.
Yeah, it is, but the same could be said for anything that occupies one's time for such a stretch, could it not?
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