We're all familiar with the concept of time seemingly moving faster when we're having fun, and dragging when we're bored. Professor Philip Zimbardo explains in this artfully presented video that it's a lot more precise than that. Past-oriented vs. present or future-oriented personalities differ across many landscapes, and factors like religion, geography and culture greatly influence how individuals experience time.
Much like video games, there are exceptional people how can avoid the negative side effects of video games, longer work hours, higher stress levels and a distributed family system. The reality is that most westerners suffer the negative side effects of these things.
I have to call BS on that. Considering that orginizing your raids in World of warcraft isn't exactly an antiscocial thing now is it?
I get, sadly, most of my socialization from the internet and I'm relativley ok. I tendto cling to the social interaction I get offline, but that's because I realize that it's not quite the same.. :P
I've noticed that effect from waiting for repetitive flash games to reload long before I've seen this.
I'm 18, and I agree/relate with everything that was presented.