Playing Video Games: Good or Bad??

“Mike, please stop playing with your video games and come downstairs to have your lunch!!”

The conservation above had been a “famous” sentence which parents usually ordered their child to stop facing computer with video games. A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Nowadays, video games can be easily got from anywhere, such as through the web. However this advanced device had been be a risk through our daily life style. So do I disagree video games is beneficial to us.

First of all, playing video games for a longer period may causes us shuffle with health problems. According to the investigating report by our Ministry Of Health, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai obesity is also causes by playing video games. This is because many of the teenagers continue sitting in front of the computer by playing video games after their meal. Playing video games also reduced cognitive of our brain function. As a point of view, playing video games might be a risk to our health.

Besides that, playing computer within a longer period may cause dropping of education. In schools, they might also unable to pay fully attention to the speech of talk given by teacher or lecturer. Nowadays, teenagers usually playing video games until late night, some even plays with video games whole night without taking a nap. As usual, playing video games is a waste of time which may also causes one addicted to it. This is also the main causes why students nowadays can’t pass their examinations with flying colours.

Playing video games is also a main cause to violent.  Nowadays, many video games consist of violent content. Violent media should consider a health risk as great as tobacco use. For example, some video games such as Grand Theft Auto (GTA) consist of many violent even sex scene as snatching residents’ belongings, robberies, grabbing police cars and more. This type of video games may lead teenagers to violent. So, we must aware with this sensitive issue which might causes lost of belongings and our love one.

As a conclusion, parents or oldest pay a fully characteristic against this issue. What we can actually do to prevent this problem from aggravation is to limit the time which teenagers usually used to play video games. So, let us overcome this problem together, to prevent it from getting worse.

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