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Following reports by the Digital Youth Project released in September which claimed that playing video games provides teens with valuable social networks, counselors from the Smith & Jones Centre in Amsterdam are now saying that not as many people are as addicted to gaming as was previously expected.  The centre, which has been treating video game addicts since 2006, is suggesting that younger gamers simply need more parental involvement in their lives, while only older gamers are probably truly compulsive about their playing.  The recent updates on the status of heavy users of video games conflicts with previous beliefs, as seen in the video below:

Discussion Questions:

1.  What is it about the nature of gaming that makes people call it addictive?

2.  How can video gaming make people better communicators?  Do you have any good examples of this?

3.  Do you buy the recent claims from the Smith & Jones Centre?  Why, or why not?