Video Games vs. everyday life

And what just happened today? I love debates but it seems to me like people liked picking on a certain individual. Today in class we talked about video games, computers, and television. Someone brought up how each one of these could be pretty useless. With television people could spend a lot of time watching anywhere between 9-24 hours at a time and get nothing out of it. With computers business is handled through the computer, it is true that a people could spend 9 consecetive hours on the computer doing work. And with video games a person could also be testing out games for other people and rating them, finding out the code to get to the next level, and finding ways to cheat. In the other hand computers and video games could be used in the other way. More than likely video games could be played to have fun and get out of reality we call the world, but it was said today (pretty interesting but very different) that hooking up with a girl on the video game is the same thing as the real life event probably better than the real life for the person who doesn't like person to person interaction as much. It was also said that certain people live to play and other people play to live and there is a greater difference in living to play. The point is that living to play is a waist of time.