Bumping up my geek cred.

Maybe those crazy kids Six and Eight can help me with this one, since I seem to recall one or both of them playing this game at some point. I have recently come into possession of a DVD containing a two-week trial for World of Warcraft. I've heard a lot of people have enjoyed it and had fun with it, despite paying some bizarre thing called a "monthly fee" to play it. What worries me is that I vanished into Diablo 2 for a few months, emerging, haggard and unkempt, with a broken index finger, wondering why my friends and family had declared me dead weeks before. WoW is by the same company, so what I'm doing may be akin to asking that guy on the street corner of a nearby neighborhood* that I'm considering trying crack because I've heard some good things about it and some people seem to have enjoyed it. But something tells me the people that suggested that analogy are pansies and don't take their video games seriously or something.

I guess what I'm asking is should I risk my social life and well being to interact with other human beings I've never met and probably will never meet over some sort of electronic network? Especially if I get hooked and log in visiting this game compulsively? Now that I think about it, this description sounds vaguely familiar, though I can't exactly place it...


*Not my neighborhood, mind you... my neighborhood is hell of nice.