Monday, June 06, 2005

on a much sadder gadget note...

when u hear something like this... this just isn't right :(

"A 13-year-old boy jumped from the top of a high-rise so he could meet his computer game friends in heaven. Xiao Yi plummeted 24 stories to his death, leaving behind four notes, none of which even mentioned his parents.

The Tianjin boy’s parents told reporters that the boy was heavily addicted to gaming and acted like someone taking drugs. The last time his parents found him in a cyber cafĂ©, the boy hadn’t eaten in two days.

While I’m sure computer addiction exists, I’m equally as sure that the people who most suffer from it are missing something in their lives. It’s sad to read about something like this, but worse to think that families around the world don’t look beyond the symptoms to what may be really causing the problems in a young person’s life."

- www.kotaku.com

Young addict’s suicide sounds stark warning

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