It’s unhealthy, sitting in your chair playing video games all day long is harmful to you and your health and can lead to a number of diseases in the future, the prime one being obesity. Spending a great chunk of your time playing video games can also lead to poor grades, it is due to people gaming and not doing their homework, preparing for tests. More gaming can also lead to less socializing, and to succeed in life, you need to develop excellent communication skills. So, for those reasons, I believe that an inordinate time spent on video games is a poor habit. Firstly, teenagers that spend a great load of time playing video games don’t attain enough physical exercise.
As article 1 mentions, "Playing video games as a form of entertainment can help a child relax" (P. 3). On the other hand, opposers question the stress-reducing nature of video games. A major point they discuss is that "...games actually increase aggressive thoughts and behavior" (Article 2, P. 4). Many parents and older alduts are concerned that children may become more violent as they age when exposed to many of the popular violent video games out there. However, the reality is that "most youths fully understand the difference between fantasy and reality" (Article 1, P. 3).
Children around the world play adult content video game And many parents say it is bad for their children; however video games can actually help their children learn. Approximately 90% of children in the United States play video games, and more than 90% of those games involve mature content that often includes violence (Park, 2014). There are those that believe video games are detrimental to society, however playing video games including those with mature content can actually be beneficial to both individuals and society by increasing knowledge expanding the ability to react positively at real life situations and improving cognitive thinking skills. Children that play video games not only have the potential to increase their ability to learn right from wrong, and to improve their cognitive thinking skills the game can also increase a child’s knowledge. Video games show your child 's information from the past like modern warfare games show how it was like on the battlefield, Games can conclude their child memory of what would happy if they do wrong or they do right.
We must monitoring and reminding each other to keep off this problem. As we know many of the top-selling video games have a lot of violence elements and harmful content, which have and can cause negative effects especially on young minds. The effects are depends on the way of a person depend on the video games and they maybe will give the effects of positive and also negative. This depends much of the age limit of the player who are play these games (Xue-min, 2009), (McCormick, 2001). In early ages of video games, they were used just for fun and entertainment and to reduce stress of daily life, but with passage of the time people got addicted to it, which generated in form of creating some bad habits, affects their families and social life as well.
Video games are frowned upon by parents as time-wasters, and worse, some education experts think that these games corrupt the brain. Playing violent video games are easily blamed by the media and some experts as the reason why some young people become violent or commit extreme anti-social behavior. When parents think about how much time their children spend playing video games, they're typically concerned with the various health risks and conditions commonly associated with video gaming addiction. However many scientists and psychologists find that video games can actually have many benefits – the main one is making kids smart. Video games may actually teach kids high- level thinking skills that they will need in the future.
What a great fun that I feel when I win a difficult video game, it is really exciting. It took me a very long period to forget the massage on the screen (GAME OVER ).But with the time I realized that Playing violent video games is no more likely to be damaging to young children’s behavior than those considered harmless, so that I choose some researches that can deal with case . More and more kids are playing video and computer games — especially ultra-violent ones that are top sellers. Research shows that children are also spending increasing amounts of time playing them: an average of 13 hours per week for boys and five hours for girls. A recent content analysis by the research organization Children Now shows that a majority of video games include violence and about half of the violent incidents would result in serious injuries or death in the "real" world.
People always say playing video games make you antisocial but in a statistic 60% of video game players play with their friends and 33% with siblings. Yes, even single player video games are more than often played with another person, such as one person is playing the video game and another person is giving the other person playing information on how to play. Friends may be battling to their demise in a video game, but developing a friendship in person (“Jenkins 1-2”). Playing a lot of video games does not mean you are addicted to video games it just means that it's one of your favorite hobbies. Video games can relate to a game of chess it all depends on skill and knowledge.
Because if not, well maybe you don’t experience yet the happiness that we can feel when we play it. Some people said that video games are not good for us. But I believe that it has its own advantages too. And why teenagers like me likes to play video games? I am thinking that maybe, the video game become more popular these days is because most of teenagers are being stressed to school.
Obesity is another problem harming the physical development of children and has become an epidemic and major public health problem in the US. Studies have found that obesity linked to multimedia use is interconnected with gender, type of technological device, family structure and economic background. The TV is the major culprit as children tend to have a higher calorie intake while passively watching TV. Video gaming, on the other hand, requires more devotion and generally the use of both hands which leaves no opportunity to snack during playtime without interruption. As mentioned earlier, modern gaming devices offer a variety of genres to include sports games that require physical movement during game play.
Playing outdoor games are not what teenagers are into today, they most likely yield to playing video games and teenagers are more engaging in violent video games such as Grand theft Auto. But, this tumultous game has certain effects on a child’s mind, it could alter a child’s behaviour negatively. A disadvantage of playing violent video games is that it decreases the self control of an individual, they become more aggresive, for example the player can do carnapping, have sexual intercourse with a prostitute then kill them afterwards. Instead of punishing the players they are rewarded. (Bushman, 2014) It is also said that teenagers that play GTA makes GTA a way of releasing their emotions specifically anger.