Can you blame video game addiction for young men dropping (or failing?) out of college?
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Anonymous
| At some point it’s just a failure. |
Anonymous
| My brother flunked out because he didn’t want to get up early to go to class so he didn’t. He failed out and avoided paying back his loans which caused him to have bad credit. I hope it is better but he didn’t want to go to college but there were no other options. His applied to the military and was rejected. What else is there other than getting a job? All of his friends were going to college so that’s what he did. |
Anonymous
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I think the internet/video games makes it easy for those inclined to lose themselves.
It is possibly just untreated depression or something similar? I know I start surfing too much when I am struggling too much with life to concentrate on a book. Thus I’m in the symptom group. In a sense of technology, the cautionary tales in this thread would have chosen a different escape. |
Anonymous
| Gaming is popular for women too. Is it causing them to drop out at similar rates? |
Anonymous
There is no stats on these. |
Anonymous
| A friends kid flunked out because of video game addiction. But he had other issues which were going to make college a tough path so the video games were an escape. And mom basically did a lot of his work and even basic life skills during high school so he was not well prepared for independent living. |
Anonymous
| mmmm.... I blame the softy moms. |
Anonymous
Yes, don't blame men when you can blame women. 
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Anonymous
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There are tons of boys in college that are there more because their parents pushed them to do it than any real interest in postsecondary education. The anxiety and apathy that this produces is the underlying factor, not the video games themselves.
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Anonymous
No more so vs most of the post here. |
Anonymous
Yes just blame men for everything. It make you feel good! 
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Anonymous
Who here said that? Try to stay on topic. |
Anonymous
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Video game addiction, like all addictions, are SYMPTOMS, not CAUSES. They are caused by addictive personalities, which overlap with ADHD or other mental disorders. Parents are not to blame. However in this day and age, with the information at our disposal, parents must stay on top of ADHD symptoms in children and watch for possible addictive behaviors and other manifestations of their children's ADHD disorders. |
Anonymous
Um, if men are the ones addicted to video games until they drop out they are responsible for their own actions. Not their moms. This has also been studied in unemployment in 20-30s in non-college educated men. Sustained unemployment/part-time employment related to excessive gaming. The principle of a video game is addiction--they are designed to at every point in the game make you want to play 10 minutes longer (to get a reward, new opportunity). We don't know why men seem to be more susceptible to gaming addictions. |
Anonymous
Men are dropping or failing out of a college are a far greater clip than females (I think it's 2x) -- especially low to middle income men and minority men, especially. At many four year universities these cohorts only have a 10-33% chance of graduating! And almost all of them have video game systems in their dorm or apt. |