The interesting thing there, is that we only ever hear of addictive behavior when it actually causes problems.

How often do you hear of someone being addicted to something, and living a perfectly normal life?

It's like confirmation bias, counting the hits, and ignoring the misses.
We just never hear of people being addicted and not having problems as a result of that addiction.


Besides, with toughs specific examples of yours, you can take out gaming and sub in any form of entertainment, and get exactly the same results.
And people have been saying the same thing about game addiction, with every new form of entertainment throughout the generations.

It's not the entertainment that is at fault, it's people.

~Yoh