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The effects of video games on people’s lives

First, it was 1981 when computer games came to being. Since then, most of the people especially children and adolescents have been attracted to this source of entertainment. Nowadays, video games are bond with our lives and affect us in many ways. As a matter of fact, video games have both advantages and disadvantages to our lives.

Playing videos games is a practical task to relieve different kinds of pains; Because of that, some hospitals provide computer games for sick kids to ease their pain. Moreover, physiotherapists call them “new methods of therapy”, for, they can form a coordination between the organs of an injured person. Videos games train people to be independent, as the player must make decisions themselves. Besides, the abilities of thought and decision-making improve due to the procedure of the game. Furthermore, a multiplayer game can make the person (the player) sociable, and adaptive to society, as a result of following some specific principles and rules through which the player cooperate with their mates in order to win the game. In addition to these advantages, there are lots of games which enhance the ability of mathematics, language, geography and… can be used in education.

On the other side of computer games’ advantageous characteristics, they can damage, both physically and mentally. From the physical aspect, player’s eyes are the most significant organs of the body at stake; since, staring at electronic displays, put a huge amount of pressure on player’s eyes and also dries them. Moreover, backbone, neck, wrists become painful and skin irritates if the player plays for a long time; in addition to these, the person becomes fat and weak. From the mental side, playing videos games can make a person touchy and cruel, for its violence; deviant, as a result of the beliefs of characters inside it. Also, the pattern of player’s sleep and diet change for worse, and the player won’t pay attention to personal hygiene like before. Besides, it may become the main reason for their weakness in studies at school.

Video games like other technologies brought many changes in people’s lives which some of them are advantageous and some others are not. Actually, we must use them productively and reduce the harm to the minimum; therefore, we won’t consider this invention of the humankind potentially dangerous!

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