Hey, @davidpakman.

Very interesting. I don't think I heard anything surprising or new here, but this is an issue that needs to be brought up regularly and often. Especially among the youth. Looking at gaming and social media similarly is a great idea and overall time spent online and what someone actually gets from that is all good to hear about. The virtual world becomes the real world, or at least, the positive interactions and aspects that should be found in the real world, but aren't, or at least not as quickly or as abundantly, makes people want to engage more in the virtual world than the real one. Positive reinforcement, on any level, has usually won out in any test and at any time period of history.

What happens to gamers who get to the point where they're so good, it takes very little effort to win or achieve? What about the girl who realizes she has all of these followers, but none of them really like her for who she is, because they don't really know who she is? She herself becomes unsure. These seem to be a couple of the major downsides to gaming and social media that people will continue to be caught up in as time rolls on.

There are some good things to both, but they need to be tempered with real life experiences, too. They can't be the dominant part of a person's life on any level.