Videogame addiction

okay i'm just gunna copy and paste my crap rough draft for my tiny essay for school lol
btw: some of these facts may not be true... i need to double check still

The problem with videogame addiction is that it is not only harming the children that play those games, but also harming their peers and their parents. Many people considered that video game addiction can cause multiple problems, such as: obesity, lack of sleep, and, in extreme cases, death. While others considered that video game addicting has nothing to do with those. So it is imperative that children are restricted to certain elapsed time of playing these games.

It is obvious that video game addiction does indeed help in the growth of obesity around the world. Children and adults do actually sit around to play video games and eat food. What ends up happening is you get into the game and you end up losing track of the time and before you know it is time for dinner. Then after that you either have to do things for school or for work so you don’t end up getting to burn off all the calories that you just consumed during your last meal. That process is repeated over and over, day after day, until the person gains so much weight they have become obese.

Some would say that videogame addiction does not cause obesity. They have this reasoning through the fact that their might not even be such a thing as ‘videogame addiction’. Those people also usually say that it is the child/adult’s responsibility to keep track of the time and that this ‘videogame addiction’ is just an excuse.

Fatigue, as most people know, is also known as lack of sleep. When you play videogames you once again loose track of the time and you might accidentally stay up to late to ‘get to the next level/save point’. Also, what happens is people have their memories of the game going through their head all night because they are addicted to it so they may not be able to get to sleep.

Then, the other side of the story is once again that it is the gamer’s responsibility to go to sleep, not the games. So if the gamer gets into the game it is his fault, not the ‘videogame addiction’.

In very rare cases, and very severe cases, videogame addiction has resulted in death. This is from when you get into a game so deeply that you forget to eat and the screen of whatever you play messes up your nerves system. Also there is the problem if you are an epileptic; you would have problems looking at flashing screens like what some games do. In one specific case someone had played a game called Starcraft for 22 hours straight and he died from brain failure.

Videogame addiction has two sides, the people who believe that it is real, then the people who believe that it is not possible for our brains to depend on videogame’s like a drug. The side that believes it believes that it causes obesity, fatigue during the day, and rarely death. Videogame addiction, if it is real, happens to not only children but also adults.

please go ahead and criticize me..

 

No no. I agree with you. My little bro (look in my sig to know who he is) is addicted to war games and strategy games like starcraft. He won't stop and lies to his parents about that he isn't playing while he is! I think it's overdoing and he's far off of it.

 

oh yeah i better give my opinion cause that paper was SUPPOSED to be neutral lol... even though im pretty sure it isn't

i personally think it is real and that people should be limited to how long they play...

 

I thought of that too but then my brother threatened me that if I limited his time, he would take this comp away from me and never will let me use it. -_-;;

 

i actually do agree with what you're saying. it makes sense. video games DO in fact contribute to a sendentary life style as well as television, that's not to say it's completely those objects fault (thot they do share some blame). there's really no way to have the games restrict the children from playing too long so the gamers or parents have to take the initiative to limit the time used on gaming. they really have to take responsibility to keep fit becuz the video games sure as hell won't.

 

All in all, video game 'addiction' is mostly on the parent's fault. It is indeed true that video game addiction causes those symptoms. I do remember someone commitin' suicide because of WarCraft, and there was a pic of a birth certificate filled out for a newborn whose first name was named after former SONIC TEAM's president, Yuji Naka, so it's not just physical, but emotional too.

However, the Wii should act as a benefit of video game addiction for kids since the Wiimote is excellent for physical excersize.

But all in all, I agree with this.

 

First point I should mention, the special thing about humans is that they can become addicted or obsessive to/over almost anything. Weight, looks, popularity, the internet, a hobby (yes hobbies such as reading), vices (such as sex and food), drugs, exercise, etc. etc. (couple this with the fact that too much of anything can kill you it's not that surprising).

So a better topic to examine (in my honest opinion) is not WHAT video games may possibly cause, but WHY video game addiction exists. It's never as simple as "just because" in this matter. Take for example weight (anorexia and other weight disorders) and exercise (better known as "exercise obsessed"), some weight disorders stem from pressure, expectations and peers that one has to be a certain weight or physical shape (some sports such as ballet require this as well). In the case of exercise it stems from "being too weak" or a general obsession with not being weak or inferior physically and of course the occassional case that sees exercise as a sort of high. Mental issues withstanding, these "problems" do not form by themselves.

Also the "obesity" claim you have is slightly flawed, as one needs a constant supply of food or an unhealthy diet to gain weight. There is no video game which readily demands the consumption of food to play so saying that video games cause obesity is much like saying driving a car causes obesity (minus the obvious lack of transportation). You should revise your claim into saying a "decrease of physical activity". Also, though it may not be a reliable source of information in your report, a great majority of the gamers in my state are actually normal or even fit by body-type standards.

Anyway back on topic, the fatigue point you brought up is very true. Also as for the control issue, especially with children, if the parents are not being responsible (or in most cases strict enough) any complaints they have are nulled and void. If a parent cannot control their child due to a lack of instilled discipline they cannot even begin to consider themselves parents. Additional intervention comes in the form of friends and other's close to the "gamer" in question. If said gamer does not have this, then by default they are considered a rather "ill part" of society and should seek immediate help (a job of the parent/guardian or the individual).

Also, though it might be a double-edged sword, mention that it is the job of the company, as a business, to make games have maximum appeal, in fact one could even say that the video game business is like the movie and book business combined.

You could use better organization overall, but the point is still understood, you have one or two word mistake errors (loose vs lose) but other than that is it fine for the most part. Now my last critique is one that is flexible, please use sources. If you have in your actual report (and cited them) you're good, but as I see none here I can only assume what you have done. Also, best of luck in finding as many unbiased sources as possible, there seems to be even greater problems with truly neutral data collection as of late, I have no idea why aside from fan-fare the (usually uniformed and corrupted) media point of view seems to supply.

 

It's really about self-control. In most cases the other "side effects" of excessive gaming are in part because there's a lack of control over time management and little initiative to be proactive about one's lifestyle. Of course these habits are first seeded by parents. Naturally a child that is not motivated by their parents to be active, eat right, and essentially do more than play video games is obviously going to have very little in terms of interior and exterior motivators to do anything else but.

 

Yeah I like this essay. Simple and to the point. =) *goes into debate mode for this topic* @_@

I very much agree with you. But this also depends on several other factors such as the individuals diet, are their fast or slow at metabolizing, etcetera? But I suppose in a very generalized sense, it will cause someone to gain a lot of weight if they have no other extra-curricular activities going on in their life. :)

Well technically, "video game addiction" is just a title for "you like games too ****ing much." XD Which is true. And unless you have a good sense of time and mental and physical health to a certain degree, it could affect it in a somewhat significant way. The parents, as the providers and care-takers by both law and moral reasons, should be the first to try and help the kid if it is really an issue. So in a way it is up to the parents. It's not an excuse ALL the time, but can be.

For instance, suppose parents DO try to stop the kid from playing way too much when it comes to video games, yet the kid neglects the attention and help and decides to play himself to death. This isn't an excuse, they really did try and help. It all does depend on situation.

And this is why when I tried to write a persuasive essay on this subject, it turned out being more informational because I just couldn't make up my damn mind. lol XD

Very interesting point. =)

Damn. I hope that never happens to me. LOL This would definitely be a case that would also agree, surprisingly, with the whole "parents aren't a role at all." Assuming the parents are neglectful or on a spring vacation at this point, there should be no reason to just leave the child sitting there if they know exactly what he is doing. o.O

Or maybe they aren't even aware, who knows. It really does depend on situation.

This is true. I very much agree with you. =)

And generally peaking, we could pretty much use ANYTHING as a drug or a dependent if we really want it to be. Just happens to be that video games are insanely addicting and widely popular; unlike cabbage. LOL