Today, it has been a social issue that children playing harmful computer games too much. Many of them lost their interest in outdoor activities. In the past, outside activity was the best entertainment for children. Children of young age could naturally grow up by interacting with others and learn from older children, so it was also a good chance to practice social skills. However, to the youth, computer game has been a powerful alternative to replace all of these activities because of its fun and addictivity. Some people say that it has been caused a lot of social problem. There are even some opinions that blame computer games for causes of terrible accidents like shooting firearms to schoolmates and teachers. However, I disagree with these opinions. I believe computer games brought more advantages than some people think in people’s life and work.
To start with, playing computer games is a good way to refresh one’s mind. Today’s hectic life made people busy, and sharply expanded information made a lot of issues waiting for people’s decision. Under these circumstances, it became harder and harder for people to split their time to go parties, meeting friends, or play sports to refresh themselves. Most of the time, they just have little time to rest even on weekands. However, computer games doesn’t require much time like other activities do. Instead of driving down to downtown, people can just turn on their computer and insert a play CD. In addition, since development of Internet enabled people to communicate with others, computer games enable people to fulfill their needs of socializing while saving their time and money.
On top of that, playing computer games helps improving one’s knowledge and ability. Many people say that playing computer games make children stupid and thoughtless. And they concern about serious addiction which computer game can cause. Nevertheless, it is being too partial to focus only on the negative effects of playing computer games. Improved interest on computer games can act as a motivation of learning something useful. In my case, computer game helped me to study English naturally. When I was in elementary school, I was indulged in a Role Playing Game which was based on a historical background of medieval ages. It was also a great issue to boys in my age at then, so it was very important to play that game. Unfortunately, there was only an English version of this game. Of course, despite the difficulty of playing a game in foreign language, I kept playing the game. What was surprising, although at the beginning it was really hard to understand conversations in the game, it went eventually easier for me to understand the story and conversations of it as I kept playing. Even now I don’t forget English words or phrases which were used in that game. Furthermore, since every life is related to computers and all the work is done by using them, playing games can be help as it enables improving abilities such as fast-writing and fixing computers.
Overall, I disagree with the opinion that playing computer games should not be allowed. As discussed above, there are some positive aspects of playing computer games. First, playing computer games helps to refresh one’s mind. Second, It helps learning and improving abilities. |