An article in the Huffington Post, "Video Games: An Hour A Day Is the Key to Success in Life," by Jan McGonigal, was quite intriguing, and some of her data are pretty striking:
• 183 million in the U.S. play on-line games for at least an hour a day (97% of boys under 18 and 94% of girls under 18).
• The average person racks up 10,000 hours of gaming by the age of 21. This equals the time spent in middle and high school.
• Get this: 5 million people in the U.S are spending more than 40 hours a week playing games!
McGonigal says “games do a better job than ordinary life of provoking our most powerful positive emotions -- like curiosity, optimism, pride, and a desire to join forces with others to achieve something extraordinary. Games also, increasingly, are a particularly effective way to bond with our friends and family -- strengthening our real-life and online social networks in ways that no other kind of social interaction can."
What do you think?
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