![]() ![]() I bought my first mic when I wanted to try my hand at streaming. In fact, when a game came out that had a multiplayer mode that was dependent on communicating with your teammates with a mic or even if I thought there would be pressure to use a mic, I either avoided the game entirely or stayed away from the multiplayer. Although I had, for obvious reasons, not had any negative experiences, I thought it best to avoid throwing myself in the line of fire by avoiding it altogether. I did not even own a mic, in fact, until just a few months ago. For most of my gaming experience, I have stayed completely away from voice chat. ![]() While I wouldn’t exactly fit into either of these two conditions due to the fact that I do occasionally play online multiplayer and will occasionally stream using a mic (an activity that for the sake of this argument I consider as falling under the umbrella category of voice chatting), its not hard for me to see why these girls answered the way they did. When considering that more than 70% of the boys reported that they use voice chat, it’s clear that there is some discrepancy in in-game experience between the teenage boys and girls that were surveyed that’s causing them to avoid using voice chat – and even online multiplayer altogether. Likewise, only 28% of the girls who do play video games online responded that they use voice chat to talk to other players. This is starkly different from the only 8% of boys who said they never play online. But of that almost 60%, 47% said they never play video games online. Do you frequently play games online in multiplayer mode? When you play online, do you use a mic to communicate to other players? According to a report entitled “ Teens, Technology and Friendships” released by the Pew Research Center, if you’re a teenage girl, the answer to both of these questions is probably “no.” In this national survey of teens ages 13 to 17, almost 60% of the girls they surveyed said they actively play games on computers, consoles, or cellphones. ![]()
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