Children have been found sitting by the front door of random homes, desperately trying to tap into the owner's WiFi connection.

Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert::Children have been found sitting by the front door of random homes, desperately trying to tap into the owner’s WiFi connection.

The article makes no such claims. It outlines the major positions and recommends further research. Gaming is not an addiction, according to the APA.

Gambling addiction - a rather well documented phenomenon over centuries - wasn’t even in the DSM until the fifth edition. Gaming addiction will be in the sixth. See you then.

I look forward to seeing if you actually are able to predict the future, Nostradamus.

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