A 13 year old boy has jumped from a high-rise building in order to join his gaming friends in Heaven, falling 24 stories to his death and leaving behind some notes.
The Tianjin boy'’s parents told reporters that their son was heavily addicted to gaming, and was behaving like somebody taking drugs. On one occasion his parents found him in a cyber cafe, having not eaten in 2 days.
While I a’m sure computer addiction exists, I a’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.
Read the full article via Kotaku
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