Online gaming is not something that is new to me. Kids that come into libraries love to play games on the public computers! Coming from a public library in California to the Snohomish Library, there is a vast difference of how many kids play games. At the library in California, there were tons of kids playing various games from Habbo to Runescape pretty much all day. This led to a problem of computers being unavailable for research and/or adults that wanted to use them. As a result, timers were installed on these computers, but these tech savvy kids found a way to bypass that timer! The IT guys had to come up with another way to prevent the kids from bypassing that timer!
Gaming doesn't seem to be as prevalent at the Snohomish Library. It is interesting to see the difference of how young kids are using libraries in different states. It is possible that more of the kids that came to the library in California were latchkey kids because the use of computers for online gaming seemed to increase in the summer. Parents would drop their kids off at the library while they went to work, leaving these kids at the library all day.
Regardless, online gaming is a trend that seems to be popular with young kids today, and even for some adults that are kids at heart!
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