Personally, WoW was great fun for a while. A lot of my friends that moved played it, even one of the greatest teachers ever. I loved doing stuff with my friends. But, when my internet died for 2weeks, i decided to hang with some of my acquaintances, which became friends, close friends, and one of them: Girlfriend(6 months in five days, yay!) When my internet came back, i very quickly got bored with WoW, and started to hang out with friends more and more. Until WoW just was dumb for me. Now i never play WoW, and i have a great social-life.
People do tend to take way to seriously. As an ex-Wow slave, i know what the addiction is like, and what it is to brake it.