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I confess, I play Facebook games.\u00a0 When a game annoys people and they complain on the community chat boards, someone always responds, “It’s just a game.\u00a0 If you don’t like it, quit.”\u00a0 But its far more than just a game.\u00a0 The fact that the complaint is posted on a community chat board indicates that computer games are often an interactive experience that requires having “friends” or “neighbors” – complete strangers you will probably never meet in real life but you will interact with on a daily basis.\u00a0 You will probably spend years with these people, spending far more time with them than with your biological family and far too often, more time with them than your spouse or partner, unless said spouse or partner is part of the same online community.\u00a0 With Facebook games, you join a team, and they become a surrogate family.<\/p>\n

With the creation of MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) games, like World of War Craft for example, that sense of community expanded to the thousands.\u00a0 People have become profession YouTube gamers, making money by letting other people watch them play these games, which seems very weird to me.\u00a0 I can understand how playing video games is fun, but watching someone else play a game holds no personal appeal.\u00a0 And yet people do this for a living, so obviously quite a lot of people do enjoy watching someone else play a game.\u00a0 And there is a very strong sense of community that is built by doing this.<\/p>\n

This sense of community used to be created in person. There was no “online” 50 years ago.\u00a0 Today’s teenager cant even conceive of not having friends from all over the globe, or of not having instant, 24 hour access to social contact.<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED READING:<\/h3>\n

How gaming keeps people connected, according to a professional YouTube gamer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I confess, I play Facebook games.\u00a0 When a game annoys people and they complain on the community chat boards, someone always responds, “It’s just a game.\u00a0 If you don’t like it, quit.”\u00a0 But its far more than just a game.\u00a0 The fact that the complaint is posted on a community chat board indicates that computer…<\/p>\n

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