Negative Effects of Online Games

Running head: NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ONLINE GAMES
Negative Effects of Online Games
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Introduction:
Online gaming is one of the most controversial topics that the world has ever seen.
online game play has become ubiquitous form of entertainment in society .According to
many of the reserhcers, online gaming have some of the most devastating effects in teenagers,
while other queries about same. This paper focuses on the negative effects that it have on
human beings, especially teenagers (Greitemeyer & Mügge, 2014). There have been many
cases where it has been seen that due to long-time gaming many diseases like complete
blindness, nausea. This paper will primary focus on the effects of online gaming in the
human’s physical and mental health.
Negative Effects of Online gaming
Online games is one of a major area in the world of games. The concept of online
gaming first emerged in year of 1970 by introductory game of MUD. Since then people have
been getting addicted to these games worldwide and there are some of the major
consequences of these games. The games are known to have some serious addictive issues
(Prot et al., 2014). There are numerous cases where it has been seen that children’s are
getting so much addicted to these games that they are forgetting everything other than online
games.
It is often seen that playing of the online gaming has become one of a major serious
problem. Parents are often very much worried about their children playing laptop games all
the times and not doing other works. Some of the major problems that many parents face are:
1. It has become a major consent of parents where it is seen that people use
money to buy stuffs of game online (Boxer, Groves & Docherty, 2015). In
children it is very common that they use money without the consent of the
parents for this purpose.
2. Effects the study and the education of people. Gamers often give more time to
playing games, other than studying, effecting the carrier growth of the
individual.
3. Sitting and playing for long duration of time makes one obese which is
becoming one of the major medical problem these days.
4. One of the other major problem is anger, it is often seen that people who play
violent games are often always angered. The games provokes one anger and
make them take violent decision.