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What About Board Games?: The changing face of in-home entertainmentBY: Guest User | Category: Entertainment | Submitted: 2010-02-22 09:27:33
Not too long ago, it was normal to have family dinners around the dinner table. Families would talk about their days, share stories of the fun and not-so-fun things that happened, connect about important family issues, and kids would have appropriate behavior modeled to them by their parents. After dinner and clean up, the family would retire to the living room for reading, board games, and maybe a television show or two. These days, however, most families don't have dinner together around a dinner table. Instead, they grab their dinners and sit on the couch or on the floor. Many times, the television is on during dinner and conversation happens intermittently during commercials. After dinner, someone claims the first game on the Xbox 360 and turns are taken until bed time. There is nothing inherently wrong with any of these behaviors. Board games and video games are both fun; books and computers serve similar functions. What has shifted, though, is the kind of relationships that are created by these activities. How many friends do you have on Facebook? I have about 250. It's not that many, but it is enough to keep me wondering how many of them are actually my friends. In reality, I only connect with a small handful of those people on a regular basis (no, I don't count status updates as connecting with people). But when I go for a walk and want someone to go with me, I can only think of two or three people to call. I think that part of this is because of the kind of relationships I have formed through the entertainment I pursue. I love reading and writing. These aren't exactly social activities. But neither are the video games I play. Sure, we have had video game parties with ten people hanging out until all hours of the night, but the only thing that we gained by spending time together was a high score on our video game. I had fun, but at the end of the night I felt like the quality of our relationships hadn't deepened. We definitely had shared an experience together and had bonded because of the fun we had, but I wouldn't be more likely to call them in a time of need. The new forms of entertainment like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and blogging have enabled us to connect with people around the world. I have kept in touch with friends who have moved to other states and have updated all of my friends on major life events (yes, and the blasé day-to-day stuff as well) who otherwise would have remained in the dark. This has given me a greater sense of connectedness to them, but instead of feeling like a confidant or friend, it sometimes feels like people are watching my life and I am watching theirs. We're in our own lives, watching television shows, instead of being connected to each other and developing our story. How we spend our time affects the quality of life we lead. While entertainment is generally seen as "free time," the way we spend this time ultimately affects every other aspect of our lives. If we balance our self-entertainment with spending time with one another, we can find the best of both worlds. Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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