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I also struggle with this dichotomy. I have definitely used computers (and especially video games) as a means to avoid confronting personal emotional challenge

I also struggle with this dichotomy. I have definitely used computers (and especially video games) as a means to avoid confronting personal emotional challenges, but that is not the whole picture for me. For me, computers are an empowering tool, an extension of my arms and fingers and my mind, with which I can express myself creatively. If children were spending all their time expressing themselves creatively through computers/phones/etc, then we would see this all very differently.

megaman22 9y ago
Are you not expressing yourself creatively by screwing around and playing in a game? Maybe that's not as possible with the digital slot machine games that seem to be all mobile devices these days can support. I think the whole creation vs consumption thing is overblown, personally. You're not going to create things that are any good without first being a consumer of them. I would have never been interested in programming if I wasn't a PC gamer first, and dipped my toes in the water in my teens with modding.
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