While most people picture gaming as an individual experience, in fact, most games provide a lot of social elements and give room for interaction with others through the multiplayer modes.
 
Most of the people use gaming to socialize and have been able to make friends and other social related bonds with fellow gamers. The modern multiplayer games such as Fortnite, League Of Legends, and Overwatch have developed large populations of players that collaborate and also communicate with each other.

It also has the potential of helping people to learn good social skills such as teamwork, communication and problem solving. Games can help to support players that are shy or are having problems to build real life friends.