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Computer game addiction [message #178616]

Thu, 10 November 2005 02:24

Kytten9
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Registered: October 2003
Location: Manchester, England

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My mother told me about this story that she had read in the British papers recently.

"The Mirror"

[004] Snowly of The World of Warcraft (Xinhua) A young girl nicknamed "Snowly" died last month after playing the online game "World of Warcraft" for several continuous days during the national day holiday. Several days before Snowly's death, the girl was said to be preparing for a relatively difficult part of the game (namely, to kill the Black Dragon Prince) and had very little rest. She told her friends that she felt very tired. A big online funeral was held for Snowly one week after her death (see photo from The Mirror)

Apparently the story is the young girl who died hadn't actually eaten and had clocked the most amount of uptime on World of Warcraft, a week proceeding her death a young Chinesse lad named his World of Warcraft character after her and was also dead by the end of the week.

This has lead to people looking at just how online or offline computer gaming has become an addiction.

This begs me to raise the all time question, just how addictive is computer gaming becoming?

For those of you who know me and my past, you will know I hate World of Warcraft because it was a resulting factor to the downfall of my marriage. But that said, I have on many occasion seen my brother play this game for 3-4 days straight with no sleep, and he looked yellow and ill for weeks afterwards, before WoW he did this with Earth and Beyond, I know in the past I actually passed out from playing online too much without rest.

I firmly believe this is an issue for some teenagers and even adults, but I wanna see if i'm not alone in my views:

http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1169510077

You have a God given right to be stupid. Please do not abuse this right!

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		Computer game addiction By: Kytten9 on Thu, 10 November 2005 02:24
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Lijitsu on Thu, 10 November 2005 03:16
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Scythar on Thu, 10 November 2005 04:27
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Belski on Thu, 10 November 2005 05:00
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Goztow on Thu, 10 November 2005 05:16
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Jecht on Thu, 10 November 2005 06:30
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Renardin6 on Thu, 10 November 2005 09:52
		Re: Computer game addiction By: JPNOD on Thu, 10 November 2005 10:21
		Re: Computer game addiction By: bigejoe14 on Thu, 10 November 2005 11:13
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Arcane1 on Sun, 13 November 2005 10:51
		Re: Computer game addiction By: luv2pb on Thu, 10 November 2005 11:20
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Crimson on Thu, 10 November 2005 13:36
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Renx on Thu, 10 November 2005 13:49
		Re: Computer game addiction By: bigejoe14 on Thu, 10 November 2005 15:28
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Kytten9 on Thu, 10 November 2005 17:33
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Hydra on Thu, 10 November 2005 14:06
		Re: Computer game addiction By: icedog90 on Thu, 10 November 2005 14:16
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Ma1kel on Thu, 10 November 2005 14:31
		Re: Computer game addiction By: YSLMuffins on Thu, 10 November 2005 18:50
		Re: Computer game addiction By: cmatt42 on Mon, 19 December 2005 15:39
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Sniper_De7 on Thu, 10 November 2005 20:44
		Re: Computer game addiction By: warranto on Thu, 10 November 2005 20:51
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Lijitsu on Thu, 10 November 2005 22:52
		Re: Computer game addiction By: cheesesoda on Thu, 10 November 2005 23:03
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Tunaman on Fri, 11 November 2005 00:48
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Renerage on Sat, 12 November 2005 09:32
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Scythar on Fri, 11 November 2005 02:50
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Kytten9 on Fri, 11 November 2005 07:21
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Jecht on Sat, 12 November 2005 12:10
		Re: Computer game addiction By: kevin414141 on Sat, 12 November 2005 15:26
		Re: Computer game addiction By: bandie63 on Sun, 13 November 2005 05:52
		Re: Computer game addiction By: SCOTT9 on Sun, 18 December 2005 08:43
		Re: Computer game addiction By: Renx on Mon, 19 December 2005 15:30
		Re: Computer game addiction By: cypher909 on Thu, 22 December 2005 10:55
		Re: Computer game addiction By: terminator 101 on Mon, 19 December 2005 23:04
		Re: Computer game addiction By: icedog90 on Thu, 22 December 2005 00:40

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