Cons of playing video games

              Video games have been increasing in their popularity since they first came out in the early seventies. In fact, they had grown to be the preferred childhood and teenager activity all around the world. We often heard about heard about ill effect of this kind modern technology, be it like violence and aggression or the preference of staying at home instead of having activity outside under the sun. Those cons may strongly harm their mind through video games by stay at home and addict to those video games. So, what are you thinking about video games? Is it pros or cons?   In my opinion, disadvantage will be carry out by addict to video games.

              Firstly, health problem is the most important ill effect in playing video games. Many of the teenagers spend all of their free time playing video games by skip meals or lose sleep because of your excessive game play,  video games addiction can seriously impact your health. From the report of the clinic, children are notes that who spend more than two hours a day in front of a video games in lieu of participating in physical activity may suffer from childhood obesity. In addition, the addiction of video games can lead to such medical issues as headaches, eyestrain, syndrome pain and numbness that u may feel in your hands, shoulders and elbows. These effects could harm us to an unwell and tiring position by just eyeing in front of the computer at least for few hours. Therefore, we must control out time in playing video games for maximum 2 hours so that we won’t feel tired and the like.

               Besides that, preoccupation also is the disadvantages by addicting to video games. A video games addiction can be harmful if you’re unwilling to participate in any interests or extracurricular activities other than gaming. They will choose staying at home playing of the video games instead of joining outdoor activities. They would easily ignore their and abandoning former hobbies that don’t related to video games or declining social events with personal interaction because you’re spending your time discussing video games on the internet. Instead of losing their interest on hobby, they also may lose their attention on their education. They would prefer video games are fun and simple to learn compared to knowledge. Thus, the addiction of video games will reduce their interest and slack in their studies.

               Violence and aggression also is the causes of playing video games instead of watching television program among teenagers. Violence can be found most in the video games , for example Street Fighter which will intimidate their mindset of teenagers. The teenagers will tend that the only way to overcome the problems. This will eventually increased the bully cases among the teenagers in school. Sex also blatantly displayed in many prominent games. This would also emphasis teenagers towards sex especially male genders. The horrid stereotyping of women as scantily clad, easily frightened people is also unfairly represented in most video games such as Strip Poker and the like. Thus, we have to step far away from those video games which contain violence and sexual aspects from protecting us from being exposure to those cases.

                In conclusion, video game is giving many disadvantages to all generations especially teenagers. Those senior or family should be our role model in daily life but protect us being suffer in those cases as those older generation would not easily being affected by video games. Therefore, we must limit our time in playing video games  and being step far away from those serious cases to ensure a healthy lifestyle in their entire life and upcoming generation in future.

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