I do not have any first hand experience with Second Life but i used to play World Of Warcraft and had several friends who played. I can say for certain that their are definitely people who play the game are addicted. I played the game mostly to hang out with my friends and I wasn't a heavy player until before i quit. I can say with all honesty that the game is quite addictive. It's built to make you spend as much time doing things as possible. When i finally realized this i just became so uninterested in the game and quit. For other players though it is often a much harder addiction to break. They think about it all the time and play it for most of the day. It destroys their real world relationships because all they care about is the game.
I found a website that was made to help people get support for their addiction to World Of Warcraft. WoWDetox is a place where people can post their opinions on the game and how it has effected them as inspiration for other people to quit. There was recently a posting on this site about the wife of a player who was ignoring her and only cared about the game. This women expressed suicidal intentions and the Webmaster of WoWDetox contacted the persons internet provider with their IP address and the individual was found by law enforcement before anything bad happened.
I have run into some funny examples of WoW addiction and game addiction on the internet. For example in this video two brothers have a bet for one to play WoW for 24 hours straight. The person successfully does it and then when asked what he wants to do now he replies "play some more." The better is astonished that there could be more to do in the game. It just goes to show that the game is truely endless and that people care about it more then anything in real life.
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