Social implications of gaming. Gaming doesn't necessarily replace F2F interactions.
Reuters - July 3 2007
Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading, and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said Monday.
But they said video games do not appear to interfere significantly with time spent with family and friends.
"Gamers did spend less time reading and doing homework. But they didn't spend less time interacting with their parents or their friends, nor did they spend less time in sports or active leisure activities," said Hope Cummings of the University of Michigan, whose study appears in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
The study comes as U.S. doctors voice growing concern about the long-term effects of video games.
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