Cons of Playing Video Games

Cons of Playing Video Games

       Nowadays, with the latest update of science and technology, more exciting games are invented and they are popular among the teenagers. It seems that many students are addicted to these games. These games provide stress relieve if you see video games as a light entertainment, however, due to the excessive play of students, it becomes a worry of parents and problems occur when the youths are over-addicted to the video games such as affecting their studies, act violently and affect their health either in physical or in mental.

      Why do we say that playing video games can affect the studies of the students? Firstly, is because of those students who cannot manage their time well, they tend to spend more time in playing games. They play until they do not realize that the time is passing and some of them can even give up their meals just to continue their challenges. From day to night they just cannot stop themselves, so the games become endless and meaningless. As their interests in games are much higher than their school works, some students even neglect their homework and they think of copying from their friends by the next day. If this case continues on, they will not learn anything, causing their academic performances to go downhill, especially of those who are addicted to these video games, they cannot concentrate on their studies as their minds have already been occupied by the games. Some of them even play truancy because they want to stay in the fantasy world instead of facing the reality which is said to be crueler. These games tend to dull their brain and waste their time. Most of them regret for not study well during the school after they step into the society as they can barely obtain jobs while compete with other highly educated interviewers. They have to work harder than the others in order to feed themselves.

      One of the negative impacts of playing video games is that these games are promoting violence. An article reported that the video games do have negative effects on children’s aggression and desensitizaton to violence. The ‘First Person’ shooting games which are very popular among the teens as the games are played in first person view, making them excited and immersed more deeply into the fantasy world until they cannot recognize the reality, and also give a bad influence to children to think that it is alright to shoot at someone without thinking of its consequences. Addiction to video games sometimes appear to be a very serious case that causes death, as taken from the case of a kid who was addicted to the television, he pretended to be a superhero and jumped off the building, thinking that he could also fly like superman, a young life was gone with such a heartache way. The violent shooting games make the youths prone to aggressive thoughts, attitudes and actions, they desensitizing the players to violence. Several of teens who are responsible for school shootings are those who highly invested in the ‘First Person’ games, they did not consider the safety of others and acted in the way they liked as played in the games as they have become less sensitive to the suffering of others due to the addiction to the games. This shows that these video games bring greater impact and contribute to a cold-hearted view of other people.

       Besides that, the video games keep the players from the real world. An addicted player can spend 18 hours or a whole day to play video games. They are less exposed to the world around them, become fearful to talk to others and are isolated from the public. Soon, they will become antisocial and have mental illnesses if they continue to remain in their own world. Some of them may have social anxiety disorder that they are extremely anxious when facing the public. Other possible mental illnesses are psychotic disorder, which they have hallucinations that are not real, and addiction disorder, that they become so involved and addicted with the games, and that they begin to ignore their responsibilities and relationships. Moreover, due to the sedentary lifestyle, as the players tend to spend longer time in front of the computers playing video games, besides destroying their eyesight, they put on weight around midriff, and they are facing high risk of obesity. If they maintain their lifestyle like this without any changes like exercising, they will have cardiovascular diseases. Because of these diseases, their lives are shorter than the others. So, what for to spend so much time on the video games if the price is your own health? It is worthless as your health, once it is gone, it is gone forever.

       In a nutshell, I believed that playing video games brings negative impact to all of us. These games affect us mentally and also physically. However, if you can control yourself, video games can be beneficial to you as long as you do not excessively involve in the games.

Written by,

Soong Moh Thing