Kids spend more time playing video games than watching TV?

at least there is Interaction, but who cares, wait, I do, no i don;t, or maybe, no I don't

But....you play games ON a TV. Maybe portables, but then they count those as screens. Maybe they're counting consoles games as not TVs?


Either way, we're using our brains, which is a plus. And developing hand eye coordination.

Video games don't develop people's hand eye coordination. Playing sports like baseball, basketball, and football develop hand eye coordination. The only video game console that actually does develop hand eye coordination is probably the wii.

The headline's screwed up. Having a larger portion of kids that play video games versus other mediums like TV, doesn't necessarily mean any of them spend more time playing video games than watching TV or whatever. The 93% of kids playing games might only do it on average for a half hour a day, whereas the 52% that listen to music could do it for an average of a few hours a day.

Actually #4...

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=3684503,

http://news.digitaltrends.com/article7760.html

when the hell did 2 to 14 year old start getting cell phones and buying games for them? damn I didn't even get one 'till I started college.

I was discussing this in school. The media completely overblows the TV thing. Most of the time, my friends are out doing stuff, or playng video games.

I watched hardly any TV when I was a kid because I was either playing outside or playing videogames. My mom bought my little sister a DS when it was obvious my sister watches too much TV because her accent/dialect/enunciation didn't reflect a Queens accent at all... pronouncing "orange" with a long O and pronouncing marry the same as Mary--two things NO native New Yorkers (anyone she would converse with IRL) do, even those who don't have strong accents. On the other hand, I probably watched not enough TV as a kid, because I sound like Joe Pesci.

Someone's a Schumacher fan... (Kid on the right)

#8, those articles are about reflexes, not hand eye coordination. There's a difference.

I definitely play video games more than I watch TV. We only have "Freeview" digital television (about 40 channels) and there's rarely anything interesting on TV (shopping channels and those really crap phone in game show channels make up a huge proportion of those channels as well as two of those channels almost entirely composed of Friends re-runs - I'm not joking)
So far this year, only Big Brother and the news has caught my eye for a few minutes here and there. Video games are much much better. For example, on most week nights, many of the channels are showing awful soaps such as Hollyoaks, Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale etc. but these shows are mostly watched by the older population.

So my life (when I'm not at school, work or with friends etc.) consists of computer games and internet.

The video game industry really does need to target kids. They are an untapped resource. My childhood consisted of only video games, especially with friends. If one of my friends didn't have a video game console, I never went to their house, he came to myhouse.

I'm a kid who plays video/computer games, and I don't even watch TV at all... I think the internet is replacing TV as a form of media.