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What You Don't Know About Gaming Could Make You Obsolete

Important and enormous topic. I'm sure I have nothing novel to add here, except to note that a lot of games (e.g. MMORPGs) do involve substantial social interaction and collaboration (team play), via text and voice. It just uses a new media, language and customs that older generations have trouble adapting to (and some therefore find menacing or degenerate).

Geekspeak and acronyms are just the tip of the iceberg here -- entirely new sets of social customs (what used to be called "Netiquette" but has now spread well beyond chat rooms) are continually evolving for use by a global and multicultural meta-community most of whom speak English imperfectly (native or not).

This new means of collaborating and communicating is already widely used in professional networks and communities in "techie" fields, and of course in the media business (marketing and increasingly journalism). Other more traditional functions are quickly following suit.