The benefits of gaming with your friends

My blog focuses on Health/Wellness and Technology. Though many don’t understand it, there are tremendous benefits to gaming. It can further be a way for friends to be bond. The following contributed post is entitled, The benefits of gaming with your friends.

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Online gaming is one of the most popular pastime activities for adults and kids alike. Being so popular, there are a myriad of games that people can enjoy playing, solo or with their friends. Minecraft is huge, with many advanced game server hosting solutions, so you can play with friends. FIFA is one of those games you can enjoy on your own or with a couple of friends – it’s down to your preference and interests.

Gaming with your friends has a lot of benefits. Some people point out that gaming results in people spending a lot of time on a screen, but when playing with friends, you’ll benefit from social interaction as well as forgetting about your everyday stress – teenagers to adults, we all have stresses we want to forget about.

Below, we have put together a brief guide on the benefits of gaming with your friends. Keep on reading to learn more and discover the benefits gaming offers.

A great way to soacialise

Gaming with your friends gives you an outlet where you can socialise and catch up with your friends. Whether it’s early in the morning, late at night, or the weather is bad, if you want to stay in, you can simply turn your console on and speak to your friends and spend some time together, but playing an online game. By being online and doing something you all like, it can be easy to socialise and create conversations.

Reduce stress

No matter your age, gender or location, we all go through stressful times. By having friends you can game with, this can be ideal for reducing your stress and taking your mind off your everyday troubles, such as work. When gaming and speaking to friends, you’ll find yourself laughing, catching up about everyday life, as well as things like how your sports teams are doing. If you become good enough, you could all game together and enter tournaments. Sites like Gamebattles allow you to compete against other players who enjoy the same games as you. The better you do, the more ranked you will become, which could lead to you winning prize money.

Create a sense of community

Gaming naturally brings people together and helps create strong, supportive communities. It gives you something meaningful to talk about with your friends and provides opportunities to meet like-minded people online who share your interests. Whether you’re teaming up for a cooperative mission or chatting about strategies, gaming creates a shared space where friendships can grow. If you are introverted, playing online games can be a way for you to meet people easily.

Gaming offers so many benefits. The above are just a few points of the many which we could have included in our guide. What benefits would you suggest gaming with friends offers? Which of the above benefits of gaming with your friends do you think is most important? Do you have a favourite game to play online, and why? Let us know in the comment box below. We look forward to hearing from you.

Author: anwaryusef

Anwar Y. Dunbar is a Regulatory Scientist. Being a naturally curious person, he is also a student of all things. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor’s Degree in General Biology from Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU). Prior to starting the Big Words Blog Site, Anwar published and contributed to numerous research articles in competitive scientific journals reporting on his research from graduate school and postdoctoral years. After falling in love with writing, he contributed to the now defunct Examiner.com, and the Edvocate where he regularly wrote about: Education-related stories/topics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Financial Literacy; as well as conducted interviews with notable individuals such as actor and author Hill Harper. Having many influences, one of his most notable heroes is author, intellectual and speaker, Malcolm Gladwell, author of books including Outliers and David and Goliath. Anwar has his hands in many, many activities. In addition to writing, Anwar actively mentors youth, works to spread awareness of STEM careers, serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the David M. Brown Arlington Planetarium, serves as Treasurer for the JCSU Washington, DC Alumni Chapter, and is active in the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church. He also tutors in the subjects of biology, chemistry and physics. Along with his multi-talented older brother Amahl Dunbar (designer of the Big Words logos, inventor and a plethora of other things), Anwar is a “Fanboy” and really enjoys Science-Fiction and Superhero movies including but not restricted to Captain America Civil War, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Prometheus. He is a proud native of Buffalo, NY.

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