Addiction in games?

I find it really weird that the media and a large proportion of the wider public have this perspective that overplaying or playing of video games can be really damaging to

children and teenagers.

This is a video I watched in my tutorial where the host came to a number in their head that 21 hours a week meant you were addicted to games meaning you could suffer depression, obesity and even dementia. That video games is the worst thing you can ever do but for some reason cannot be classified as a hobbies, which apparently is the healthier option for our kids to have, a hobby, isn’t playing video games a hobby? It sure is to me. Why is the overuse of doing other activities not on the same boat as playing video games? For instance I used to play rugby at school. We trained maybe 10 hours a week, on game day we trained 2 hours than played for around 2 hours. We watched the opponent’s game and studied it for 3 hours. We were than told to watch all the super rugby games that were playing in the weekend. I mean that’s way over 21 hours, and I really enjoyed it, but surely that must mean I am addicted to it? Well apparently you can’t be addicted to sporting activities only video games. Why is sport glorified and playing video games excessively is something linked to the devil? What’s the difference between a kid who locks themselves in their room for hours on end reading violent books to a kid who is playing a violent video game for the same period? Is it that reading books is suppose to be what normal civilized kids are suppose to act? There is only one difference and that is the public have something drilled in their head from misinformed academics on media forums such as the video below shows that video gaming is addictive and has very bad side effects. They fail to recognize the notion of ‘Problematic Use’ which is the obvious argument for anyone who does anything excessively. Until problematic use is recognized I fail to see if the couch potatoes who believe everything they watch on the news are going to still believe that video gaming is addictive and dangerous which is utterly stupid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfagA_VYFQ