Recently, IS, an Islam radicalism terror community, released a video promoting themselves. What was controversial about the video was that it compared a screen of a video game and a real IS soldier’s life, saying that “You can experience things in the game in reality.”
First of all, there can be a serious addiction to computer games. American Psychological Association concluded the game addiction was included into a kind of mental illnesses. They commented the symptoms of computer games was similar to those of gambling addictions, impulse control disorders. And this addiction appears due to the desire to be rewarded – Griffith, in his book <Online video gaming>, cited that addictions were radically based on certain rewards and reinforcement of thoughts - by something very simple for them to do in their life. Some proponents of computer games claim that there exists some policies, a shut-down policy in Korea for example, to keep people from being addicted to the games. However, one statistics conducted for adolescents about the proportion of game addict shows that there were no change after applying the policy, proving those policies have no practical effects.
Also, it can badly affect children’s mental conditions. According to a social learning theory suggested by Albert Bandura, children may observe and imitate the behavior the people around them do. And owing to this imitation mentality, children also copy the game contents they see. Since many of the computer games contain sensationalism and violence, such as some criminal incidents like murder and robbing, this kind of behavior confuse our society’s atmosphere. The most representative example of this is the Gangnam-yeok homicide case, of which the criminal committed cruel murders by the impact of violent computer games.
Lastly, computer games make people unresponsible for their job, especially for students to study less than they should. According to a statistics measured in one Korean middle school, students 20% from the bottom on performance usually appear to play game over 3 hours once they start it. Like this instance, computer games can have cons to studying students. But some people insist that there be some educational games. However, the market share of educational games is staying at low level. As a result, most computer games cannot be seen as having good aspects to studying.
In conclusion, I think computer games are not good for children on the grounds that they can have strong addictiveness, deteriorate children’s sentiments, and make children study less. Although games give us a little exciting feeling of life, we should control ourselves from falling out the world of provocative computer games.
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