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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can play games with a group of friends online. [b]Boys no longer call each other to talk.[/b] They talk while playing games using Xbox or PlayStation. If you have no gaming system it can be hard to be social.

My son started a new school for 5th grade. He now plays with 3 other kids from his school for 30 minutes to an hour in the evening. He would feel really isolated without that connection.[/quote]
That’s exactly right. Instead they spew misogynistic and racist garbage through their video games because nobody is watching. Your kids are exposed to all kinds of things you don’t know about on there. [/quote]

They do this in the gym, on the playing field and everywhere else. [/quote]

I’ve never heard my son say anything inappropriate on Xbox live or on the playing field. Sorry your son was so poorly raised though.[/quote]
My kids are 6 and 8. We don’t have one. That was a ridiculous comment.

My knowledge is based on half a dozen male friends who tell me what goes on in the chats. My black friend plays and nobody knows he’s black and he says you should hear the racist crap people say and all kinds of hateful things about women. It doesn’t surprise me. Anonymity of being online makes things worse. That’s different than being in person in an all-male macho environment. [/quote]

I have played Xbox live for 18 years and I haven't heard any rampant racism or misogyny. Either your "male friends" are full of shit or somehow they run in bad circles. Get better friends.[/quote]

Same here.  Also sounds like the “black friend” is playing with randoms instead of people he knows.  My son’s not interested in playing/chatting with strangers (nor is he permitted) just the friends he would normally socialize with. [/quote]

This. You don't chat on line with random people who don't know who you are.[/quote]

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