Ok, so right now it's spring break for me. Rather than playing RuneScape the whole time, I have plans pretty much all week. However, during the week I play 2-3 hours a day. I'm at school for roughly 6.5 hours a day, thats a 3-1 ratio of me socializing with real life friends, then going home and talking to my in-game friends. :) I imagine your schedule is simialar, so mention that and maybe they will slow down.

 

 

 

Your parents are just trying to get the best for you, don't talk trash about them on forums. :roll:

hmm, my parents see it the same , the thing is.. they do.. make me.. antisocial... :?

 

 

 

 

 

erm..

 

i'm cool, yeah, I am, no really...!. aww

man my parents always say that computer games make us anti-social but if u ask me i think that rs is a very social game. everyday u meet new people and have a nice chat with them. what do u think?

 

yes, if you consider this to be a nice chat

 

 

 

*training on experiments*

 

noob:Omg u st0l3 mi xperimnt

 

Me:who said it was yours?

 

noob:i did, noob!

 

Me:and I listen to you because?

 

noob:bcoz mi main is lvl 200

 

Me:although the highest you can get is 126?

 

noob:no bcoz I iz jagox stuff

 

Me:you mean Jagex?

 

noob:no it is jogox

 

Me:I thought it was Jagox

 

noob:No its Jagex, noob

 

Me:Rofl

 

noob:lol, your stupid, you make up words

Videogames wont make you antisocial

 

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I was "antisocial" and played runescape

 

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1 day i discovered that "cool" people played the game, they were all like lvl 50 and i was 75

 

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I gave them "phr33 st00f pl0x" and they started to talk with me until they somehow found that they were having fun with me.

 

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After that i became cool, i dont have gf or anything like that :oops: , but i have an exelent social life and 99,9% people i know is having fun with me, i even have lots of friends that are like 4-5 years older than me, thats great when you have my age (im just 12 ... :oops: )

 

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I still cant believe im cool thanks to runescape :shock:

 

 

 

Yes, i love "...", No, you cant say anything about my age

I met my best friend playing a video game against him. But my dad just hates video games.

 

 

 

For example, he set up this "one-hour-a-day-rule." It's okay, i can live with it. And when my sister got on for the 1st time all day, he says get off and she says why? And he gives the lamest excuse, he says, "Because I don't want video games to be THE driving influence in your life." :? It's like he thinks that they'll suck you into the screen and chain you in some kind of jail! what the heck?! b But the HE's on the internet until the wee hours of the morning, and HE is the one I get up to find asleep in front of the TV.

 

 

 

lol I have an hour a day thing also, but I sometimes sneak on for more :wink: , my dad is glued to the tv from 6 - 12 hours and he is so dam annoying sometimes, he dosent let me go on forums, he just dosent notice the tip.it ones because it has a white color

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4774534.stm

 

 

 

I remember seeing someone posting that on here I believe. It talks about anti-socialness and gaming :P

It's just the simple fact that one generation never approves of the trends of the next generation. You will more than likely find things that your kids do "Bad" when they believe it is harmless.

your parents are right. Your frineds you meet online aren't going to be with you in real life.

 

 

 

You might be social in cyberspace, but real life is where it all counts.

 

 

 

Just limit your time on the computer.

do you type to your freinds in school? otherwise no...

I'm a parent. My son plays WoW. I play RS. He used to play RS, but switched first to Maple Story, then WoW because (a) that was what his RL friends were playing and also because I was always about 20 levels higher than him in RS :twisted:

 

 

 

I've been a gamer for over 30 years, D&D, Colossal Caves, Zork, you name it, I've played it. And I still manage to hold down a decent job (I'm a database programmer in the health care industry) and have a social life outside RS.

 

 

 

My son has pretty decent social skills, RL friends and a GF, as well as online friends. We still mess around and call each other "noob" and talk about "pwning" each other. If he turns his music up too loud I tell him to STFU and so on. But that doesn't mean we can't speak properly, discuss important issues, and write legible, grammatically correct sentences.

But the HE's on the internet until the wee hours of the morning, and HE is the one I get up to find asleep in front of the TV.

 

 

 

That's because us adults have pr0n, son.

 

 

 

I was going to say that but you beat me to it :x

 

I agree with trunksrs.

 

Your Family:

 

Great Grandpa says to your Grandpa:

 

GrGrand: Darn you rascals and your fancy cars. Back in my day we rode on Horseback! Ha! Stupid Henry Ford and his darn idea...

 

 

 

Grandpa says to your dad:

 

Grand: You are your darn bettles/disco music! Back in the war we didn't had time for music, or else the Nazi would blow the * up ouuta our base! You got it lucky kid.

 

 

 

Now, Dad to you:

 

Dad: You darn kid and your damn rap! I swear the Bettles/Disco weren't that bad and gansta as your * rap. And that Runescape thingy, get some exercice boy/girl! I only had a darn Artari and we played outside all day.

 

 

 

I could go on...

Actually, there is studies.. People who are attracted towards mmorpgs are often introverted people. The mmorpg is not the cause, but the consequence.

OMG my parents are the same.. only 1 hour a day.....

Yes. Real life and Cyberspace are two totally different mediums.

 

 

 

Those who socialize in cyberspace may learn a little about socializing, but there is so very much you miss out on.

 

 

 

Online, you cannot hear tones of voice, you cannot see body language. All you see are words on a screen, without seeing a real person behind them. This may be liberating, but you have very little clue as to what the person on the other side of the screen is thinking and feeling besides what you read them typing.

 

 

 

You miss out on the changes in tone of voice that marks the difference between factual statements and sarcasm. You miss out on questioning tones. You miss out on all the nonverbal cues of someone's true thoughts, like body position, hand gestures, and eye contact that can really give a person away.

 

 

 

Not only that, but if you socialize in cyberspace instead of real life, you will have a much more difficult time of real-life interaction. You won't have really good speaking ability. You won't be able to pick up on certain clues that others can. You might have a more difficult time hiding certain things because you aren't aware of the cues you give off.

 

 

 

Not only that, but you can take two people, have one say something to the other, and have totally different reactions to the same exact thing depending upon if it's online or offline.

 

 

 

For example, if you follow someone in RS asking for money or info, they'll usually just get ticked off. Follow someone in real life, they'll normally get creeped out and quite possibly call the cops.

 

 

 

Tell a girl something crude online, and she will most likely laugh it off as some idiot being stupid and pay it no further mind. Say something crude to the same girl in real life, and you'll more than likely be visited by the cops again.

 

 

 

Just because you're "talking" to people online, and making new friends in a virtual landscape, doesn't mean you're truly socializing. You have nothing to judge most of these people by except words you see on a screen, words that you have no other clue to tell if they're the truth or a lie except the words themselves.

 

 

 

Again, I repeat: "Socializing" online is nothing at all compared to socializing in real life.

 

 

 

I tend to mispronounce things in real life because I don't talk enough. I know how to pronounce them correctly, I just trip over my words occasionally. I don't know how to hold myself properly(I mean posture-wise) nor do I know how to read many nonverbal signals I see at the time I see them. It usually hits me after the event is over that a certain pose or so was made and it meant something I completely missed.

 

 

 

That's because I spent too much time online and not enough time in the real world. Don't mess up like I did, kid. Be grateful your parents are trying to get you to socialize with real people you can see and touch and hear face to face.

a few of my best friends are over the internet.. That doesnt mean i dont have real friends lmao, your parents are stupid

 

agreed

you might be social in the Internet but the fact is you will be less social in the real world.

 

 

 

*Sigh* Predicament that my friends I meet online aren't real friends because I don't see them. Internet is real life but with a sea between me and those I speak too[/i]

 

 

 

Agreed. (hello hypno!)

real life and typeing on a computer is huge!!!! difference you physically see this person in front of you, you do real activites with them, not a series of clicking,

 

 

 

and meeting a pixel shaped girl on runescape, and a live beauty...is quite the difference :oops:

 

 

 

I agree with Sk8. Reality and a game are 2 DIFFERENT things. One being real and the other one being unreal and thats all you need to know :lol:

What sk8 said.

As long as your not a childish fool, as in making fun of random people, it should be perfectly fine to have friends in the game just like you do in real life, but playing video games does not make you anti social, I mean, im sure people like The Old Nite Or Zezima have at LEAST 2 friends in real life, Right? :?

i think games make you more social, since whenever i meet my friends i start talking about games and.. stuff :D