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Essay Topic: Does the extensive use of computer/video games have an adverse impact on the health of young people. What are the most recent papers? Clarify what all sides of the argument claim and only then offer your reasoned opinion based on facts.

Caution! Extensive play computer games may harm young people.

After stepping into 21^st century, the revolution of the new technology has changed the communication style of the world. Obviously, computers are the most important devices that bring lot of benefits of the social communication. Computer and video games are the dramatic related products which influenced young people. People believed that extensive usage of computer/video games will have negative effects to the young users from both physiology and psychology perspective. It is reported that the computer/video games bring more problems than the television for the young generation of people (David 2000). However, there are some researchers also consider that the games may bring some benefits to young people from the education area. This essay is going to discuss both the negative and positive effects of extensive play computer/video games.

Obviously, many teachers and parents believed that computer and video games will influence young people with the information of violence. Most of the computer games developed with the topic or issue making the players finish or achieve some goal by killing others or defeating someone else. The young users have less control with that information and could not distinguish what is right and wrong. Sidra and Pakistan (2011) have similar perspective with most of the teachers and parents; “Games are very important in kids', teenagers' or youngsters' lives but most of the computer games have now brought negative effects on our youngsters because these games are based on plots of violence, aggression and gender favoritism”. Also, the young kids spend most of the time on playing computer/video games will have less time for the real world communication with their parents, teachers and friends. Therefore, the young people will have less communication skills in the social community. A negative result is that they will then rely more on computer games or cyberspace. Lastly, there is a both physiology and psychology problem caused by computer/video games. According to the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the young people played computer games which had violence plots may use violent in school, which will be harmful to their school mates (The Independent 2012). In addition to those, the young kids may repeat or copy the actions or words from the computer or video games, so some violent on campus might be caused or even worse, some social problems would appear. In another word, the computer and games make the kids touch violent too earlier, which they have less control with themselves, therefore, many problems would be produced. And if their parents stop them playing games or reduce the time, most of the kids would continue playing those games without knowing by their parents. However, if their parents keep them away from the games, there might be some family problems happen, for example, running away from home or even suicide.

For the physiology field, there are many news and research state that extensive use of computer and video games will make damage of the physiology health. Based on the research of Europe media (2002), Gavin Cleary of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London, “Parents and children should be aware of potential health problems that could be caused by prolonged use of the devices”. They found a 15 years boy had damaged his hand because of playing the computer games by the vibrating control devices; and he played at least seven hours per day. Also, many teenagers addicted on the computer games and spent lots of time on playing that or even had no sleep, food and drinks while playing games; and as a result, their health would be menaced. Lot of news published about extensive playing games and finally led the young life to die. In addition, as playing video games should focus on watching the monitor; the concentration of the players should be very high. As a result, the young players are growing up with a high pressure and high electromagnetic radiation, which has negative influence to the health of kids.

However, there are some researchers found that young people play computer and video games may bring some positive effects as well. A pervious study reported that, the people who played computer games a lot when they were young or current spent time on games have better eye-hand coordination (Jordana 2011). That is, the young children could be trained the eye-hand working ability while playing computer games, which will help kids develop their brain. Also, some small games, which have some educational helps, develop the ability of study. The teachers use those games in class to improve interesting of studying; therefore, kids could have impression of what they have learnt. With the games, kids could preview what they will learn next and practice what they have learnt. In this way, the study efficiency would be improved.

To sum up, extensive playing computer and video games are harmful to the young people; especially, the violence or gender favoritism information makes the young people copy or repeat during the real world life. What was worth is that the young children want to play games without eating and sleeping, and finally affecting the tragedy. However, there are still some benefits of playing computer games. For example, playing computer/video games could help the kids improve their ability of eye-hand coordination. But if the parents and teachers are force the young players stop spending time on the computer games, the situation might be even worse. Therefore, the parents should supervising the time and types of using computer/video games in order to helping the kids to avoid the harm. And the teachers could educate the young people how to play computer games and what kinds of games are beneficial them.

Reference List

David D, 2000, Prince George Citizen: Computer games violence is “more harmful than TV”, viewed 19^th September 2012, http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/361522065

Europemedia, 2002, Computer games can be harmful to your health, viewed 18 September 2012. http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/208747225?accountid=14543

Jordana M, 2011, Pediatric for Parents: Can playing video games be harmful to you kids?, viewed 19^th September 2012. http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/1017708413

Sidra S and Pakistan O, 2011, Harmful computer games, viewed 19^th September 2012, http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/871173969

The Independent, 2012, Children being damaged by violent computer games, teachers warm. Viewed 19^th September 2012, http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/940894941

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