They would boast to me and to each other about how quickly they had beaten a game, and they would readily share their opinions about what games were good and bad. In interviews, several proudly self-identified as gamers or even “hard- core gamers.” On social network sites like Facebook, the geeky boys often posted images from their favorite games, or pictures of their favorite gaming equipment, and some used these images as their main profile picture. Many played online games with each other when they were at home, and they also played games with each other on mobile devices before and after school.