Did you just pin one of the reason for suicides on online games? What is this politician talking points from the early 2000’s?

I promise you kids have been forming groups and have had feelings of exclusion that existed well before online games. The root cause here wouldn’t be online games in of themselves.

I literally did the opposite and said that online gaming helped people to socialize in lockdowns. I also made hypothesis it explains some gender disparity in suicides - boys play more likely and it allowed them to keep talking to friends which made them suicide less.

And for the record, I do strongly dislike gaming, surrounding culture and how gamers act when they play more then a little. It just was not my topic now, topic was suicides in covid.

Ah my mistake sorry.

No, they did the exact opposite. The proposed the idea that suicide did not increase in boys because they were more likely to have socialization circles around video games.

According to the CDC data, suicides were way down during the lockdown itself

Reason for gender disparity I meant. But good to know.

Girls continue to have Instagram.

Where the activity can be distressing or malicious in terms of jealousy and trolling

Online gaming too, severely too. Maybe even more. But, it is closer to irl communication.

1.) Boys too.

2.) It is not socialization with active voice chat. That is more like writing letter or something like that. It will do less to make your brain feel like you have social connection.

The thing that is supposed to make difference (according to psychologist that had talk about social isolation) is talking. People who call have similar psychological results as those heavily socialized. if you write mails a lot, you reassemble lonely people more.