Frequent game players are not socially isolated.

Frequent game players are not socially isolated.   

Traditionally, the image of a gamer is that of a loner who prefers spending his or her time playing video games over spending time with friends. Our survey refutes this stereotype, revealing that the most avid, frequent gamers are just as communicative and socially engaged as less-active gamers. The one exception is text messaging: daily gamers are somewhat less likely than those who play less often to send or receive text messages daily as a way of communicating with friends. Gamers do send texts, but are less likely to do so on a daily basis than those who game less often; 32% of daily gamers send text messages to their friends every day, while 41% of gamers who play less often text friends daily.
Beyond text messaging, however, daily gamers are just as likely as teens who game less frequently to use other methods to communicate with friends (landlines, cell phone, IM, email, and social network messaging) and to spend time with friends face–to-face.