• They’re screenagers, Net addicted, losing their social skills, and they have no time for
sports or healthy activities. Time spent online could have been devoted to sports and
face-to-face conversation; the result is a generation of awkward, fat people. And
whentheyget addicted tovideogames, some say, the results canbeworse.Mothers
Against Videogame Addiction and Violence (MAVAV), for example, describes
video games as “the world’s fastest growing addiction and the most reckless
endangerment of children today—comparable to drug and alcohol abuse.”