Online gaming as a socializing source
By : Andres Ricardo Ayala Cosulich
Have you ever played an
online video game? Well,
The truth is that in my own
experience I enjoy playing
online video games, mainly
when I play with my
friends, that's the main
reason I play video games
because you can meet
people and socialize with
different people.
We are social beings, that's why
we socialize however we can. With the onset of the pandemic, our social lives changed
drastically, to the point, if we want to socialize we have to do it in other ways that were
not so common before.
From the first day of the quarantine, I knew that I would no longer be able to socialize as
I did before. I started playing a video game called Fortnite with friends from Mexico.
When I started gaming, I remember I started gaming in a discounted and unlimited way
until I had to limit myself. Over time things changed. After all, I stopped playing for a
while because I sold my gaming laptop, and I started playing video games again until I
bought a new phone and started playing PUBG mobile.
In this game, I met several people who became my friend's overtime. Something that
made me very curious is that I talked and socialized more with the friends I made in
PUBG mobile than with my friends from Mexico when I played with them.
To know more about the change in people social life, I interviewed one member of the
group I play with, Johan Guerrero. I asked him how his social life changed with the
pandemic, he replied with an extensive reply that in few words relate how the pandemic
has drastically limited his social life. Many people like my friend cannot socialize in
person as they did before, so they have resorted to interact in other ways like playing
online video games.
After hearing this, a question dawned on me. Is this way of socializing going to last
beyond the pandemic, or it be less resorted for social purposes as now?
