Playing Video Games: Good or Bad?

‘Mitko, it is the time for you to go to bed.’ ‘5 minute later, mom’ ‘Dear, you have wasted your whole weekend on it. Tomorrow have to go school, it will be horrible if you can’t wake up in time.’

Do you ever get the experience like this? Video game has become a hot topic for all the teenagers today. As a teenager, we have used it as a main part of leisure activity in our life. However, playing game too often can harm us in many ways.

 First of all, video games can be addictive to teens. Recent brain research is suggesting that any addictive behavior can harm the final stages of brain development in young adults. This is only a potential side effect of these games. The most serious problem is student would neglect their study as they have spent too much time to play games. They don’t know how to manage their time wisely. In the end, their result is getting worse and worse.

Besides, sitting on the chair and staring at the screen all the day might harm their body. Many of the teenagers spend all of their free time playing video games by skipping meals or late to sleep. This may impact our health indirectly. The addiction of video games can lead to such medical issues such 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 for a few hours.

Teens tend to confuse the reality and friction as we live in the fantasy world for a long time. Since more and more video games have a violence background, we will believe that such violence is alright.  Then, we will adhere to these behaviors and model what we have seen in the reality. This is why the crime rate has increased rapidly in the world every year.

Although there are so many bad effects that brings by video game, it can’t be deny that we can improve our visual skill and hand-eye coordination through the games. The gamers are better at spotting details in busy and confusing scenes compare to others. We could cope with more distractions in our life. This leads us to solve our problem with some nice skills.

In the nutshells, since it is too difficult for us to leave away from video game, we have to reduce time on it. It is better if parents could keep a watchful eye on us. Remember that does not playing the games over time as it bring us so many disadvantages.

 

BY: Mitko Ooi