Playing Video Games: Good or Bad?

Playing Video Games: Good or Bad?

                       Do you ever play video games? If yes, how many hours do you play every day? Did you feel your life had ingrained with the attitude of the characters in the video games? Did you ever feel that you have a hard time when someone tries to stop you from playing video games? If you did, that’s mean video games had become a disadvantage to you. Not only on you, but also for other people who plays video game. So, how does this disadvantage affect your day?

                       One of the most common criticisms of video games is that they increase the violent tendencies among youth. However, not every youth who plays video games will cause them to falls into this kind of tendency. But due to the scientific investigation, it shows that children learn from what they see on the screen. If they see violence being rewarded, they are going to learn that being aggressive is a good way to get what they want. Believing this can have long term effects on children’s behavior. As children these days get involved in violent video games such as Grand Theft Auto, Counter Strike, and other related video games, they imitate these actions and it get them ready to act out in the next situation, whatever it might be. After playing a violent video game, children who can normally handle frustration may last out when things doesn’t go his or her way. Since they grow in this type of livelihood, social problems might be the contributions by the children.

                       Besides that, playing video games can also affect one’s health. Researchers believe that video games are associated with an increased risk of childhood obesity and in some cases can cause overuse injuries of the hand. Since most of the players spends most of their time sitting in front of the screen when they are playing video games, the risk of developing muscle and joint problems such as back pain, neck pain and headaches will be increased. Out of these problems, obesity is the most frightening health problem to be taken intention with. According to Kids Health, a website sponsored by the Nemours Foundation, cause of obesity normally happens when there are no limitations of time for a child on playing video games per day to able them to have some time for a little bit of physical activities. This will end up with children have no opportunity to burn off the calories containing in their body which lead to gaining of weight. As they get obese, the chances of meet up with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other health concerns will increase as the day goes by.

                       Play video games also affect children’s time on managing their timing on academics. Based on some survey and studies, it had reported that there is a linkage between video game use and poor achievement in school. Most of the children who play video games had over spent their time on the screen. This causes them to have insufficient of time to do their revision and homework. As a result, their skills and writing scores falls into the region of academic problem contributors. Some children will over shoot of time in playing video games until them lacking of sleeping time. They will just continue play and play when they get addicted in video game until the stage of burning “night oil”. This is a negative side which brings health problem from the aspect of mind.

                       However, video game does bring benefits. Daphne Bavelier, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester had made some studies on young people who play video games. She make a conclusion that a person who play video games will turns out that action video games can improve a person’s vision, attention and certain aspects of cognition. And she also states that these skills are not just gaming skill, but also for real-world skills. Children who play video games help them to perform better than children who do no play video games in attention, speed, accuracy, vision and multitasking skills. In future, these children will participate in building of country into an advance stage of life.

                       In the nutshell, video games are bad for children or even for any other individual. This is because not every child who plays video game can give them a chance to get involved in the path way to success. There are a lot of children who suffer from addicting with video games and had ruined their life and future just because of video games.