That guy who plays video games is taking over the world

On Twitter this a.m. I found out that online gaming has passed e-mail as the second-most popular activity online. The Washington Post article mentions that social networking is still the #1 online activity but is this only scary to me??

The article does pay homage to the type of guy I referenced in the title. And since this class is mostly women I'm hoping to slide by with a brief jab in the side of those guys who spend endless hours playing video games long into their 30's...no, it's not hot. But now THAT guy, and your friends (and likely my friends) are spending more time playing online games than most anything else? And since everyone is connected to online activities 24/7 these days, that means some people may spend more time playing online games than most other activities!

I can see it now: You spend XX hours sleeping, XX hours watching TV and XXXXX hours playing online games in your lifetime.

Weird. Are the games really that interesting? Are people getting smarter through Farmville? Help!