Playing video games good or bad?

A lot of people, especially young people, spend their day with playing video games. Many people think that playing video games brought us a lot of of advantages. But for me, I strongly disagree that playing video games bring advantages. There are three main reason to support my opinion.

   The first reason to support my opinion is video games can be very expensive. Many gamers spend all of their money to stay current with the lastest video games and hardware. Let us say that the price of a game remain constant at $50 for next ten years. In order to maintain a typical gamer’s habits, thousands of dollars have to be spend in just 1 year. Beside that, gamer often have at least 2 different game console and 1 high-end PC. Imagine how this money could have been better spend; in buying new clothes, in futhering education or even as the down payment for a new car.

   The second reason is video games can be distracting. Gamers who avid to play video games are similar with those people who smoke a lot of marijuana. Many gamers have many things to do in their life, but they never get to go around to it, it is because they spend too much time playing games. Reading a good book, taking care of bills, writing an article, inventing something, mowing the lawn are simply not a priority when it comes to getting to the next level or finishing a game. Then, when they do have time to work on one of their projects, they're too tired to do it, because they take almost whole day playing a game.

    The finally reason is video games can rob you of real life experience. Instead of taking a trip, mountain biking, or hanging out with friends at a cafe, gamer's spend their time in a virtual reality. Whereas real life experiences bear long lasting friendships and memories, videos games do not. The only pictures that come from video games are screenshots, and the memories that are created from playing those games are ultimately meaningless. Living means interacting, growing, learning, teaching, and loving — none of which can be accomplished in the virtual wasteland of video games.

     In conclusion, video games are bad for us. We should not play video games too often as it brings us a lot of disadvantages. Parents should also control and guide their children to prevent them from playing video games for too long.

Written by,
Lee Jia Yan