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I think what needs to be blamed is the fact that there is nothing more stimulating in their life than World of Warcraft. It's rough. It can be an addiction, but addiction is born of a need to escape reality and a lack of stimulation. There are lots of towns where everything closes at 9 o clock and there's no place for teenagers to go. It's pretty sad that if you're driving around at 11 and you want to go somewhere you end up at Denny's or a bar. If you don't have the option to go to a bar, that puts you at Denny's. Given a choice between videogames or Denny's, I'll take videogames. Videogames don't charge me 6 bucks for pancakes I'm not actually sure I want to eat at midnight. Give teenagers options, and maybe they'll stop playing videogames. Yeah, many do have friends that they neglect hanging out with, but their friends often have nothing better to do either. Communities need to institute things like free midnight Friday movies for teens (R rated even). In my hometown of Wenham, MA you could either go out for fast food or you could drink, or you could play videogames. Every town in a fifteen mile radius rolled itself up in a carpet at 8 o clock. If this weren't the case, maybe people would leave their room. The nearest mall to the town I'm living in now closes at 9 on weeknights. The Best Buy closes at 10. Nothing is really open but restaurants. And for SOME reason the kids have big drug problems. Go figure.
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