"Tap The Glass™" - They hate it when you do that...: Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed

Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed

SLASHDOT - "According to a study published in the upcoming October issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the average US video game player is 35 years old, overweight, and tends toward depression. Specifically, female video game players tended towards depression, while males tended towards large BMIs. While the study itself points to several conclusions, one researcher noted: '... habitual use of video games as a coping response may provide a genesis for obsessive-compulsive video-game playing, if not video-game addiction.'" On the flip side, the Washington Post is running a story about the mental health benefits of playing video games.

Why Tap The Glass?

Who maintains the internet?

"The internet has the potential to incite belligerence on a global scale, or even to empower demagogues and repressive regimes in ways that were historically impossible to achieve previously." wikipedia

Could you lose your internet? - (yes of relevant content )
Maybe you already have? - (yes well 90% of it ;-)

Due to mass media and marketing you don't even see half of it and never will - (You see what we want, not maybe what you want)

Why do you think you found this page "random chance"? Hardly

Not possible on the internet...

The 57 Million blogs maintained on the internet and that number doubles in size approximately every 230 days.

So, about 100,000 new weblogs are created each day...

The internet has the potential to incite belligerence on a global scale, or even to empower demagogues and repressive regimes in ways that were historically impossible to achieve previously. at Blogged

In the December 2006 survey we received responses from 105,244,649 Web sites with content...

While Al Gore has done a lot to promote his books & movies... he did not create and does not maintain the internet, these guys do ;-)

Why "Who Maintains the Internet Matters"... Here’s a little something to think about while the UN makes the case for greater international control of the internet turning a large class of people into social misfits, deviants and criminals and terrorists...

Who maintains YOUR internet? - Hoz

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