Minecraft videos - why are they so addictive?
Found on BBC News on Thursday, 14 May 2015
Minecraft, the online world that most parents simply don't understand, is now officially the most watched game of all time on YouTube.
Researchers in China, for example, performed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies on the brains of 18 college students who spent an average of 10 hours a day online, primarily playing games like World of Warcraft. Compared with a control group who spent less than two hours a day online, gamers had less grey matter (the thinking part of the brain).
Pretty much the same can be said about the TV program these days. It's full of braindead shows that keeps large parts of the population soothed so those people spend less time on thinking about real problems.