Why are people addicted on video games? Why this phenomenon strikes especially young people or teenagers? Why they prefer to play video games to study? Why people spend a lot of money on video games? Why young people prefer to play video games to any other hobbies? What effects can have the violence on video games in the real life? What impact this situation can have on the future of culture and formation of young people? What can be done to avoid this situation in the future?
It’s a fact that in the last twenty years, a big amount of people have become vitiated on this type of games. At the beginning it was just a way to have fun outside home, on specific places to this kind of entertainment, because people couldn’t play these games at home in the past, but with the advance of technology these games have reached to people’s houses. Once they came to people’s houses, everybody started to buy video games and this hobby became year by year the favorite hobby of many people, since children to adults. The reason why these games are so vicious is very complex but the truth is that in nowadays the selling of these products has expanded in a very fast way. Since computers to machines like Playstation, Wii, etc, there is an extended variety of games from every genre, since sports to action games, since strategy games to quiz games, there is a lot of games for almost all ages.
The fact of teenagers being the number one players of this type of games is a disturbing and dramatic situation because they became more focused on these games than in their own studies, a sad fact that made their school performance becomes lower. Another problem is the money that is spent by people, usually parents, on these games, since the price is very high. A very important point of view is the violence showed by these games that makes the younger public become more violent.
The impact this situation can have on the future of culture and formation of these young people can be very scary because most of these games doesn’t teach anything to people and only make them become more violent.
I think one thing that can be done to avoid this situation in the future is stopping with the publicity to these games and start to advertise more educational programs so young people could be helped to take an educational career and living from the right way.
It’s a fact that in the last twenty years, a big amount of people have become vitiated on this type of games. At the beginning it was just a way to have fun outside home, on specific places to this kind of entertainment, because people couldn’t play these games at home in the past, but with the advance of technology these games have reached to people’s houses. Once they came to people’s houses, everybody started to buy video games and this hobby became year by year the favorite hobby of many people, since children to adults. The reason why these games are so vicious is very complex but the truth is that in nowadays the selling of these products has expanded in a very fast way. Since computers to machines like Playstation, Wii, etc, there is an extended variety of games from every genre, since sports to action games, since strategy games to quiz games, there is a lot of games for almost all ages.
The fact of teenagers being the number one players of this type of games is a disturbing and dramatic situation because they became more focused on these games than in their own studies, a sad fact that made their school performance becomes lower. Another problem is the money that is spent by people, usually parents, on these games, since the price is very high. A very important point of view is the violence showed by these games that makes the younger public become more violent.
The impact this situation can have on the future of culture and formation of these young people can be very scary because most of these games doesn’t teach anything to people and only make them become more violent.
I think one thing that can be done to avoid this situation in the future is stopping with the publicity to these games and start to advertise more educational programs so young people could be helped to take an educational career and living from the right way.
João Serafim