Do your friends know you play video games?

[AnnaIME]

I'm 40 and I'm a mother of two. Let's say my gaming habits earn me a lot of uncomfortable glances.

My son is ten, and his friends think it's weird but awesome that he can ask his mom to help when they're stuck. Their moms don't know the difference between an RPG and an FPS. The other moms think I am strange. In my position, I'm supposed to be concerned about my children's gaming, not play games myself.

My real friends are mostly women my own age, and my gaming doesn't bother them. We played for hours when on my Commodore 64 when we were teens, but these days they limit themselves to a few rounds of Bejeweled while planning dinner.

 

[SckizoBoy]

About a third of my friends are gamers as well. The rest are very casual at best, but in all, they don't care.

In either case, cool

 

[SilentCom]

I don't really have friends but those who know me also know I'm a gamer and don't really care. Some of them even play.

 

[Light 086]

Crap, double post. Please ignore this.

 

[Wolfram23]

I post plenty of game related crap on my FB wall so... it's out there. But for whatever reason I don't actually game with a lot of friends. I have maybe 2 on PSN that regularily play CoD, and on Steam I actually have a very small friends list and I've never played a single game with them. But then I'll go out with other friends and we'll talk games... I was surprised to learn a good handful of my friends play Minecraft.

 

[staika]

Yes all my friends know I game and that I game a lot even though I never told them. besides whenever we hang out we are most likely playing video games.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

Yes my friends know I play games. Mainly because pretty much all of them are gamers as well. Games take up a large portion of our conversations so yes, they are well aware I game.

 

[Amberella]

Most of my friends are gamers themselves so of course they know! Lol

I also make it known that I play video games to everyone. xD

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I love my online friends that I go to visit sometimes They accept my interests and lof me for my LFD and wow skillz. However in the tiny town I live in I'm afraid my friends are dolled up women who think im a freak becuase I trade pokemans with my nephew *le shrug* I just want to be myself :< yay for the internet!

 

[Nietz]

All of my friends know that I am a gamer. Anyone who enters my house can figure out in mere seconds that I am a gamer. Don't have too many gamer friend thought, which is a wee bit sad.

I don't think it shows on me that I am a gamer, but as soon as one talks to me, it becomes quite obvious(but that has lesser to do with me being a gamer and more to do with me being a giant NERD).

 

[Verlander]

In the UK a vast majority of people play games of some description, so yes, they do

 

[philzibit]

I'd be more surprised if I have a friend that doesn't game.