“THE DANGERS AND IMPACTS OF ONLINE

GAMES THAT ARE OFTEN IGNORED BY

KIDS AND YOUNG PEOPLE”
During this pandemic, all of us must be familiar when we hear the word "Online Games". Apart
from the fact that foreign culture has entered and introduced online games to Indonesia, many
kids and young people have a hobby of playing online games. However, playing online games is
not wrong, what is wrong is not being able to manage the time to play. But, do you know? That
in 2022, Indonesia is included in the 10 countries with the most online game players with a third
rank of 94.5%. But not many know that playing online games continuously can have a negative
impact on the health, behavior, mindset and psychologically of kids and young people, it also
affects them in the economy aspect and psychologically.

Firstly, the bad impact of playing online games continuously in health is that, it can reduce the
performance of the brains of kids and young people, one of which is difficulty in regulating
behavior (impulsive), the function of attention is to focus on one thing, the executive function is
to perform and plan an action and the last is the function of inhibition, namely the ability limit.

Secondly, playing online games continuously can affect negatively on the young people and
kids’ behavior because in online games there are quite a lot of harsh words so that the behavior
of kids and young people are damaged due to imitating the scenes and words contained in the
online game.

Thirdly, the negative impact of playing online games too often is being able to affect the mindset
of kids and young people, namely the decrease in enthusiasm in learning and always wanting to
play online games continuously. Kids and young people who are addicted to games will continue
to ask for money to be used to top up diamonds in the game.

Fourthly, the impact of playing online games often will trigger psychological aspects where in
online games there will be scenes of violence such as fighting, killing and shooting. It gives
symptoms to kids and young people such as irritability, utter dirty words and emotional that is
difficult to manage.
In 2022 we are as Generation Z should not be too often to play online games. We can play online
games as long as we are able to manage time to study and do not play online games too often
because it can have a negative impact on yourself which will harm yourself and others.