Poll: Your Social Status and Video Games

[Tears of Blood]

To clarify, this means friends in real-life, not the Internet.

So, being the social reject that I am, I was wondering if I am alone in all of this.

My vote would go to option 5, unless you count my father. I don't understand it, really. I try really hard to hide that I play games. It sucks, but I wouldn't give them up for all the friends in the world.

I mean, don't get me wrong. It's not like I've never had a friend, I have had a few here and there, but I haven't been able to keep any for more than a few months.

Make no mistake, I am not looking for advice or a friend or something, I am just wondering if video games have something to do with it. I am wondering if there are others out there who cannot connect with others in the same way I am unable to because of their addiction to games, or perhaps games are an allure to those of us who are predisposed to social rejection.

 

[CoziestPigeon]

Is it because of games that you don't have friends, or just because you are very terrible at social skills?

 

[Neonbob]

I highly doubt it's the games that are behind that.
As for myself, I only have three friends that I know in real life.
Probably because I have what I have deemed a social retardation[footnote]Aspergers, in a joking sense[/footnote], and that impacts friendships quite a lot, I'd say.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I really can't see an appreciation of games holding you back socially.
It's probably something else.
I have one or two good friends, and would not consider myself a hardcore gamer by any stretch of the imagination. My social skills just suck.

 

[azurawolf]

Ehh... I have enough friends to keep me happy.
I have never been popular. Always the weird girl who never spoke up.
I have never been shun by everyone though. I always had enough friends to keep me from being a social outcast.

A good amount of my friends play video games and I love playing them with my best guy friend.
It is great to share that hobby with my friends.

 

[AWC Viper]

umm.....i moved to a different city and now all my friends are on the internet. so i guess I have absolutely no friends. None whatsoever.

 

[Tears of Blood]

Is it because of games that you don't have friends, or just because you are very terrible at social skills?

Hmm... Can't say. It's probably the latter, but my introversion spawns partially from my love for games. I try to have a conversation, I often think of games in some way. I know I can't talk about that, because it'll bore the person I am talking to, so I end up having very little to say.

So, in a roundabout way, I have this feeling it has something to do with that.

 

[Bernzz]

Everybody knows that I play video games, but I am in a group of people who from the outside are as normal as anyone else, yet they also play games. Some are quite hardcore Nintendo fans.

Even the popular people know that I play games, and yet I receive no shit whatsoever from them anymore. I'm even quite good friends with a number of the popular people. Hell, even my girlfriend plays Grand Theft Auto.

 

[badgersprite]

Playing video games has never impeded me socially. Actually, I know a lot of people who play video games. In fact, the most popular guy in my grade just chilled out with me and some friends of mine talking about CoD4 and what our favourite video games of all time are. He's probably played more video games than I have, since I tend to devote more time to studying.

 

[Tears of Blood]

*Roots for option 5, with only my vote*

... Terrible of me, isn't it? XD

 

[HarlyHellbender]

I find dating someone who also likes games balances things out. You still have a social life, and you still get to play games... and maybe a few video games too =P

 

[Tears of Blood]

I find dating someone who also likes games balances things out. You still have a social life, and you still get to play games... and maybe a few video games too =P

Oh good grief, those people are hard to find, let alone get interested in you.

 

[XJ-0461]

I'd say I'm fairly popular, as most people in my year at school like or at least tolerate me, despite video games.

And I don't think there is any correlation between playing video games and social status.

 

[HarlyHellbender]

I find dating someone who also likes games balances things out. You still have a social life, and you still get to play games... and maybe a few video games too =P

Oh good grief, those people are hard to find, let alone get interested in you.

Yea, I was flirting with this one guy for 4 hours and he never realised that was what I was doing >_< Sometimes you just gotta say it out right.

 

[Master Kuja]

My college is so full of gamers that it fails to be funny anymore. really, my gaming habit is actually a massive help in making friends, rather than a hinderance, I'll admit I've never exactly been the most social creature in the world, but I have a decent portion of very close friends, I've never had to hide the fact that I'm a gamer from anybody, infact, a few friends that barely play games tend to indulge when they're in my company anyway, there's nothing more fun than sitting up all hours with several bottles of something alcoholic while shooting everything into dust.

I don't really know what else to say, I've never felt that my social status is hindered, the fact that I have a fair few of my friends from college on my Xbox Live friends list says something in itself, I guess that's the benefit when you live in an area that has next to no attractions, so the only thing people can do together for any period of time is...Play games.

 

[Sketchy]

Games don't affect my social status at all. I have plenty of friends, and none of them seem to mind that I game.

Maybe the people who go to my school are just cool?