Atrocious Effects Of Video Games

A recent research has shown that video games are the fastest growing form of entertainment in the world, and almost young people age 8-18 play video games an average of 13.2 hours every week (Price-Mitchel, 2013). It seems that the young people who are influenced utmost by these games. Many people believe that some games may have positive impact, but other people consider that some games are probably in reverse. Consequently, people may destroy themselves if they continue to play games without knowing about some atrocious effects of them. Although playing video games may assist stimulate and relax the brain, I believe that it still harm to young generation such as creating aggressive players, impairing people’s physical health and influencing …show more content…
While playing games, sometimes people spend too much time standing in front of the screen, and can easily suffer from several diseases such as eyes pain and muscle pain. It seems like our eyes may be somewhat fragile and can be adversely affected by Ultraviolet Ray from technologies, therefore people should play games less than one hour per day in order to protect their eyes. Moreover, when people extremely focus on their game, their eyes have to work harder than usual so it can lead to the eye-focusing problem. It has been proved that playing games more than two hours per day can have a devastating effect on eye’s attention, analyzed both elementary school students and college students, according to Pediatrics (Regal, 2010). In addition, spending several hours playing games possibly make muscle become inflexible, and can create pain, result in the finger, wrist. As Philadelphia (2009) says, ’’If your child suffers from unexplained finger or wrist pain, video games could be to blame”. Next, it is believed that the majority of young people nowadays ignore their eating because of playing games (Boyle, 2014). They buy fast food, snacks to replace for their meal so that they can have more time to play games. It probably brings into our body the amount of sugar which have no nutritional value but are high in calories increasing heart pressure, obesity, fast food also causes the lack of …show more content…
People’s mentality represents all in their spirit, their thoughts, and it will influence the way people produce actions. Generally, games allow players to express their feelings, whether anger, pain or pleasure. Day by day, some people may think that share the emotions with others is unnecessary, and they would like to be alone to play games. A recent study has confirmed that the autism signs in teenagers may come from video games (Denver State Medical University, 2016). Besides, a high number of young people could be a lack of social skills at an alarming rate due to video games. A study has shown that the social skills level of normal student is higher than the one of the students addicted to computer games (Zamani, Kheradmand, Cheshmi, Abedi, & Hedayat , 2010).It may be the case that they prefer playing games to making friends. On the top of that, people who regularly play action video games may tend to be neurological and psychiatric disorders, according to the research (Siddique, 2015). Those games such as Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto V were more likely to decrease gray matter in the hippocampus part of the brain which has been associated with disorders such as schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and so on. Conversely, playing games can be beneficial for people like lessening stress and motivating active part of the brain. Advocates of games argue that