Playing computer games: good or bad?

Playing computer games could be fun and entertaining. It is a trend nowadays. Most children even adults are hooked with games like these. It is important to know the effects of computer games so that gamers like you would have a more sound decision in choosing which games are good for you..

Good Effects

• Video-game playing introduces children to computer technology.
• Games can practice children in following directions.
• some games provide practice in problem solving and logic.
• Games can provide practice in using fine motor skills.
• Games can provide occasions for parent and child to play together.
• Some games have therapeutic applications with patients.
• Games are entertaining and fun.

The Bad Effects

• Overdependence on video games may make someone antisocial, as most games are often played alone.
• Playing violent acts may contribute to aggressive behavior.
• Game environments are often based on plots of violence, aggression, and gender bias. Women are often portrayed as weaker characters that are helpless and provocative.
• Many games only offer an arena of weapons, killings, kicking, stabbing, and shooting.
• Playing violent video games may be related to aggressive behavior.
• Academic performance may be negatively affected due to over-all time spent playing video games.

What to Do


Researcher suggests the following ways to tell if a game is potentially harmful:

1. Pay the game yourself, or have someone demonstrate it for you.
2. Ask yourself the following questions:

• Does the game involve some charaters trying to harm others?
• Does this happen frequently, that is, more than once or twice in 30 minutes?
• Is the harm rewarded in any way?
• Is the harm depicted as humorous?
  
• Are nonviolent solutions absent or less fun than the violent ones?
• Are realistic consequences of violence absent from the game?

If the answer to two or more questions is yes, then think very carefully before buying or playing those games.


Sources:

• Effects of Video Game Playing on Children.http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_effect.shtml
• Gentile, Douglas A. The effects of video games on children: what parents need to know.http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0816/is_6_21/ai_n9772319
• Rufus, Vinci. Computer and Video Games: The Pros and Cons.wwwbuzzie.com/editorials/2-27-2004-51038.asp
• Strategies for parents around computer and video games.www.youngmedia.org.au/mediachildren/05_11_strategies_comp_games.htm#impact
  

What do you Think?

The youth are over reacting to adults censure; the adults are over imposing their authority. That is the problem. What shall we do?

They seem to be passing the ball of blame to each other. There is the reason of the youth's sentiments; so is there reason in the adult's action towards the young.

If the adult say that the "youth" is the hope of the motherland, it's really true. The youth are the ones with energy, vigor and idealism. They must channel this to something good for their country if they want to put these endowments to good use. They may lose their chances towards greatness.

If the youth would ask what the old had done when they were young, the truth is the old had not really done best. Are the youth are now wiling to repeat the same error?

The old had lost their chances that they can never regain. The chances they had wasted haunt them in their lonely hours that is why they are urging the youth now to act accordingly or their time will pass without them knowing it. They might wake up one morning looking at their wrinkled faces, their sagging arms, legs and body. These signs of the body tell them that they are already old and could not anything do more special and extraordinary. No matter what amount of repentance the old must shed, still everything is useless now when they are already at the twilight of their lives.

So if the youth want to change the present picture of our society, they must be productive now. They must not waste their time on fleeting things. There is no good blaming the old what they were able to do. The young must prove they are a better stock.

Now is their time.