Social Impact On Video Games

Video games are a enormous part in the world today. “More than 150 million people in the United States play video games regularly or for at least three hours per week. The number of sales has increased and in 2016, 24.5 billion games were sold, up from 23.2 billion in 2015.” “This Type of Video Game May Actually Harm Your Brain.” written by Mahita Gajanan is my positive article and “How Video Games Affect the Brain.” written by Hannah Nichols is my negative article. In this essay I am going to talk about video games and their impact on the brain (Nichols).

Once I started researching this topic, I found out that video games can affect people's moods making them more aggressive and irritable. People become obsessed with video games and often withdraw from normal life (work, school, and family). They can acquire social anxiety or depression from the lack of daily socialization. Some people become very unproductive and only care about their game. It’s like the video game takes over people's lives.

The obvious mental problem is aggressive behavior, but others include social phobias, anxiety, and even depression. Physical effects caused by video games include fatigue, migraines due to intense concentration or eye strain, carpal tunnel syndrome caused by the overuse of a controller or computer mouse, and poor personal hygiene. Now one thing, the bad effects are mostly caused by spending too much time on video games. So that means, if you or your child spends less time on video games, there are good effects. Video games increase coordination, improve problem-solving skills, sometimes enhances memory, and improves attention and concentration. It is a great source of learning, as it improves the brain's speed, enhances multitasking skills, and improves social skills. Patricia Greenfield, a psychology professor at UCLA, has studied the relationship between video games and intelligence and finds a positive correlation. Her research attributes an increase in worldwide "nonverbal IQ" (spatial skills, the use of icons for problem-solving and the ability to understand things from multiple viewpoints) to the spread of video games. I was thrilled to hear my prejudice confirmed--until Greenfield noted that this rise in IQ comes at the expense of potentially more important social skills. Which is to say that kids typically don't interact that well when they spend hours sitting in front of the computer or console. "It's

Video games have been a lasting influence on our youth and adults in today's society, games in the making throughout their time have came from a slow pace, pixely, more of a puzzle type of games. Nowadays games today are more real life making it feel like the game you're playing to be real life. They also are fast pace, not as much thinking involved, just run around shoot em up type of games that are in demand, stems the question are video games beneficial or hazardous? A Lot of people in today's society have the opinion that videogames are a waste of time, create antisocial behaviors, and have a negative influence on the person's physical and mental health, because they have a lot of violent content. In my opinion video games have a very positive impact on people today and they are beneficial by giving people a brain workout, it promotes social activity and teamwork, it also proven to improve your psychological well being.

“Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end” (“Video Game Quotes” 1). Over time researchers, psychiatrists, and parents have often wondered how damaging violent video games can be to the youth in society. This is an important matter to people with children in their personal lives or work environment. These games have become a large risk factor for aggressive behavior in children. Researchers have been saying that video games do affect adults as well; however, they have even more effect on younger brains in early development. Video games have negative effects on childrens’ behavior. Some effects that video games have are reduced academic performance, aggression, obesity, and emotional disorder.

Recent advancement in science and technology has brought number of innovation, video games is one of them. Do video games cause behavior problem or not has remained a debatable topic and people have different thoughts on the issue. Proponents of the notion believe that video games cause number of behavior related problems, such as aggressive behavior, whereas the opponents reject the notion and propose one reason or the other. Although some people don't believe that video games cause behavior problems, there are three reasons that indicate the opposite side.

Over the last decade video games have become a huge controversy. Every day more people play video games than live their lives. Which has become a big concern because videogames are being known to be more hurtful than beneficial in light of more recent studies. Video games have disadvantages, like becoming addictive, influencing violence, and causing poor social skills. There have been many studies on the effect video games have on people’s social skills.

Video games have been around for more than fifty years now and is considered one of the main sources of pop culture and entertainment across the world. A book may tell a good story and a movie might show a good story, but only a video game lets you control and experience a story. In a video game you are the main character or you create your own either way you choose what's right from wrong and you choose whether you want to become a hero or a villain. Some video games allow you to choose your character this includes classes such as a knight, ninja, samurai, soldier, archer, sniper, a super hero, etc you might even have the choice to become an animal or a physical object. In a video game you can do as you please without too many limitations sure some video games have a sort of real life experience where there might be an authority such as police or laws and your character might get in trouble if they break the law but it's not the end because there is ways to get around getting in trouble or danger. In Video games you get what I like to call the “whole package” because with video games you get to experience a story, emotions, entertainment, sports, art, music, and a wonderful community built around for the video game itself. So what’s the main issue with video games today? Nothing really it's more about the way people look at them and are misinformed about them.

Over the years, video gaming has become more and more popular and has started to become something integrated in with society instead of being cast out of it. It has breached the generational gap, joining the ranks of sports, movies, and other activities that people of all ages can enjoy. Speaking of sports, gaming has spread its wings there as well, officially being dubbed esports or electronic sports, gathering players from all over the globe and competing for trophies and cash prizes. Two of the most popular esports are League of Legends, League for short, and Smite. However, being similar games, many people claim that there is no difference between them, stating that one ripped of the other and that the other is inferior in some way. However, just like football and rugby, while they may look identical to anyone looking in from the outside, anyone who has participated in both games for a decent time will tell you that they are drastically different in gameplay, game feel, and design aspects.

The first effect of playing video games is poor Academic Performance. As Arshi mentioned in her article “If your teen spends more than two hours gaming, then he [or she] may have trouble falling asleep and paying attention in school”.Then she went on to say “Video game addicts also skip homework to play games, leading to a downfall in their grades”(Arshi). Some people would rather go for the next level or the next upgrade in the video games, then what their priorities are and this is bad for their Academic health. As long as the person who is playing is able to control their ability to play this should not be a problem.

Kids love video games. Not only is it fun for them, but recent studies show that it 's a healthy activity for children to engage in. According to a study at Oxford university kids that play video games are less hyperactive, more social and happier than those who don 't play at all.

Video Games industry is the biggest entertainment industry, bigger and better than Hollywood, “The video-game industry is projected to grow from $67 billion in 2013 to $82 billion in 2017. At the same time, global movie revenue, both DVD and ticket sales, hit an estimated $94 billion in 2010, down 17% after inflation from 2001” (Fast company). Video Games are a huge part of children and teenagers in today’s world, they spend hours playing video games every day. In our society video games are one of the most common and most fun way of using technology. “In September, a new pop-culture milestone was reached. The fourteenth installment of Grand Theft Auto did $800 million in worldwide sales in its first 24 hours. That was the biggest launch day ever for any piece of entertainment—any movie, any record, anything at all” (Fast company). Over the years video gaming has evolved and with its evolution it has changed itself and changed how the gamers play it. Video games have turned out to be a really controversial subject with people and scientists debating if it has any negative effects on teenagers like addiction, aggressive behavior, and depression; but it has not been proven yet if video games does really have any negative effects on the society. Although video games might have some negative effects, it has a lot of positive effects too, which cannot be ignored. Some positive

Video games are the fastest growing form of entertainment in the world and many adolescents play video games for hours every day. According to a survey conducted by Gallagher, 58% of Americans play video games and 43% of game players believe that computer and video games give them the most value for their money, compared with DVDs, music or going out to the movies (2-3). However, in the past few decades there has been debate over the positive and negative effects of video games. Most people think that video games just cause problems in the world today. For example, a large amount of developmental and social psychological research in the video

The long lasting effects that video games have on the brain will be debated in excess until substantial research can be conducted. The small amount of research that has been completed is not enough to make a clear judgment. Researchers are still analyzing data to shine some light on an issue that contains so many different variables. This essay will contain data on the impact of video games on the brain’s function, its impact on those functions, and on the brain itself.

Scientific research supports that video games have implications on the youngsters. In addition, they support the claim with concrete findings addressed in the literature review. In their reports, various researchers state that video games affect the social, psychological, and physical well-being of children. This research report supports the scientific view that although video games are beneficial in terms of improving attention, they negatively affect the children’s social being on a deeper context. The methods employed in the collection of data involved administering of closed questionnaires to the parents and teachers in a small neighborhood. The inherent motive was to establish the beliefs of parents and teachers upon the negative effects of the video games. The teachers partially agreed that video games have more detrimental effects to children than benefits.