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The Bad Effect of Game Online

Now days, children getting acquainted with gadgets and technology, Marc
Prensky is a education expert and graduate from Harvard and Yale University, who
wrote Digital Game-Based Learning book, mention that children age under 14 years as
digital natives. PC, tablet, play station, or various smart phones is known well by
the teenagers. Most of them use the technology advancement just for playing games.
In such research mentions that excessively play game could disturb the process of
children growth. Besides that, I think addicted game could cause problems that are
socialization and communication problem, decreasing empathy, health disturbances,
and psychology disturbances.
Players of game online usually spend time in front of machine, they enjoy
playing game online with virtual friends. The teenagers will get difficulty to socialize
with their friends. Of course they will feel awkward and uncomfortable and also they
hard to adaptation with new environment. Communication is not about just talking
and listening words that people speak but also read the expressions of the speakers.
The children who seldom hang out with their friends usually get difficulty to do this.
Most of the teenagers like game that involve violence, such as war, martial art,
ec cetera. The effects of playing game that mentioned above is causing the
aggressiveness of the childern and decreasing emphaty toward others.
The children spend too much time in front of gadgets or PC, it is causing our
body less active. This condition will reduce the opportunities for them to practice
motor skill. After effect is the child may hamper the process of height growth.
Besides, staring at the screen constantly for a long time can trigger headache,
neckpain, insomnia, andeyestrain or astigmatic.
According on the reasons that mention above we can conclude that playing
game online is not good activity for childern because it can make addiction. We could
play game online but we have to know the limitation and consider the bad effect for
ourselves.

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