Do you consider Augmented Reality Games/MMO's (like Pokémon GO, Ingress, World Of Warcraft and ARMA3) to be fraternization?

Playing competitive sports can be a valuable "team building" exercise. (And for those who don't consider computer games as competitive sports, you need to see the money being paid to top competitors).

The whole idea behind Fraternization is that its prejudicial to good order and discipline. Is playing Call of Duty on the same team going to keep that Squad Leader from sending his Lance Corporal to take out a machine gun nest because they played in the same game lobby? I really don't think so. I honestly wouldn't care if Marines are sharing gamertags and playing games online, as long as they're not hanging out one-on-one at each other's house and broing out. As SSG Colwell pointed out, servicemembers can be part of the same church, clubs, etc. and most online games take place within a larger community. I don't see it as much of an issue as long as it doesn't become a "good ole boy" type of activity which creates a perception of favoritism and discontent in the unit.

I agree with the other posters. I invited a 1SG from another company to a raid in World of Warcraft because we had exchanged battle tags during a prior meeting with several members of the unit that played. The raid group had a large number of various ranks, officers and enlisted, from our unit and took that sucker down before any other group on our server. The most that did for our professional interaction was a reminiscing here and there at the smoke shack, but he was still "First Sergeant" and I was still "Sergeant Beverly." To echo what the others have said, if the troops in question have the maturity and integrity necessary to keep the gaming in the game and professionalism at work, I don't believe any form of online gaming is inherently fraternization.