It’s no longer surprising that nowadays everyone likes playing online games. Not only teenagers or adults, even underage children are now skilled at playing this internet-based game. This is due to the lack of supervision from parents. They forget that giving children permission to play with gadgets without supervision and restrictions will have an impact on their development.
It would be dangerous if someone who plays online games has experienced “addiction”, they can no longer stop themselves from playing online games. They will even prioritize playing games over doing their main activities. How can it be like that? Because usually when playing online games they will get rewards quickly, so it will be difficult for them to delay playing games.
There are many negative impacts caused by frequently playing online games, especially health problems. Here are the negative impacts of addiction to playing online games:
- Experiencing sleep disorders which result in disrupted body metabolism.
- Experiencing fatigue syndrome or he will often feel tired.
- Stiffness in the neck and muscles
- Will experience dehydration, thinness, or even obesity because he is more concerned with online games than other activities such as eating and drinking.
- Eye health is disturbed by looking too much at the cellphone or computer screen. The eyes will become tired, the minus will increase, or what is terrible is damage to the nerves.
- Decreased concentration, exposure to radiation from electronic devices on gadgets can reduce concentration.
- Lack of socializing, because they prefer to play games at home rather than playing with friends outside.
- Children will become more aggressive, a child who plays games that contain elements of violence such as war, fighting and the like will tend to have difficulty controlling their emotions so they become more aggressive.
Even though it has many negative impacts, playing online games in the right way and within reasonable limits will also have positive impacts, including:
Train your ability to solve problems
When playing a game to win, a child must develop a strategy, take an approach to move forward, and make a decision quickly. Without realizing it, these methods can train children to be able to solve problems.
Reduce stress
Playing online games can be an outlet for sedation when you are experiencing a lot of stress. By playing games someone will feel happy, so stress can be diverted.
Physical activity
Some online games require physical activity to play, such as dancing, playing the guitar, and others. This means that players no longer sit or lie down but have to move.
Fitness and nutrition
Many online games contain fitness and nutrition elements. An example is physical fitness to lose weight. This of course aims to encourage game players to live healthy lives.
Team work
There are several online games that implement group play features, of course to achieve victory requires teamwork. This can train someone to work together and help each other.
These are some of the negative and positive impacts of playing online games. Of course, the role of parents towards children is very necessary when playing games, so that children do not become addicted. Not only children, adults must also be able to limit themselves from playing games too much, so that negative things don’t happen, especially health attacks. Thank you for reading, hopefully it’s useful!
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