Hahahaha a HUGE circle of my best friends were raised off this game.
I honestly don't tell anyone that I play runescape, but me and all my friends are super close because we always get super baked together.
My friends could care less that I play runescape, because they all know that I can smoke some mad weed =]
But its funny, I recently found out that a whole bunch of my friends who graduated high school still play runescape.
If everyone did know that I played RS on the daily, it still wouldn't affect my social status =P
Maybe if I was fat and played RS, but I'm a decent looking person who always gets exercise and what not hahaha.