Playing Video Games: Good or Bad?

Playing Video Games: Good or Bad?

                Video games are defined as games played electronically by manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or display. Today, computer and other technology tools have become part of our lives. Video games are something that we are in contact every day. Many people spend their free time by playing video games via their smart phone. So, what are the benefits and disadvantage brought by video games to us?

                 In many research, scientist found out that video games can improve your visual skill and reflexes. Video game enhances the capacity of visual attention and its spatial distribution, and it is capable of radically altering visual attentional processing. Other than this, video games also improve the coordination of brain and fingers. This improvement enables video game players to make decision faster and logical thinking. Video games player can have a better performance in work with the help of fast decision making skill.

             Playing video games also help teenagers to relax from stress. Nowadays, teenagers are under pressure from schoolwork and social problem. Video games help them to relief from pressure. There are some researches showing that playing casual video games put people in a better mood. Video games may soon join the ranks of yoga and meditation as sources of calm and compassion, according to a new study that finds video games can have many psychological benefits.

             Today, most of the teenagers owned a smart phone. They can spend whole day with their smart phone at all the place. You can see that many people is holding their smart phone no matter where, in bus station, in restaurant, even in the toilet. Toilet has become the best place for them to break their game's record. This phenomena shows that we are spending too much time playing video games, it vastly slow down teenager's studies and the worst, the teenagers already addicted to it and can't live a normal social life.

             Other than this, spending too much time to play video games also bring health problems to us. Prolonged computer use could be linked to glaucoma, especially among those who are short-sighted. Our eyes are very badly affected when you spending a long time at that bright screen. Long periods of time in front of computer also lead to backache.  Neck and shoulder problems also result from poor seating and the poor organization of equipment on the desk.

   In conclusion, we should play video games wisely to minimize the side effects that video games bring to us. Parents should guide the children to arrange their timetable spend on video games.

 

Group 3,

Noah Leong.