Video Games

Video Games 

           Ever since the technology develop the video games are becoming common, and a lot of people play not just young age but also adults. These people rely on video games a lot, and they use it to communicate with other. For example, Educators can use video games to help children to learn easily. “Children and adolescents can become overly involved and even obsessed with videogames. Spending large amounts of time playing these games can create problems,” written by The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2006). In the other words, those children and teenagers who play video games a lot of time can develop more problems to them such as damage human brain or effect any part of human body. However, people at young age must limit their time they spend on video games because they will have mental health and physical problems, and they are more likely to perform poorly in school, and they might become violent.

          Addiction to video games cause physical and mental health problems especially at young ages. As these children get older, they are more likely to have some problems with their vision such as visual impairment or hyperopia because facing screen affects their eyes. In the article “Sitting Too Close to the Computer Screen Can Make You Go Blind (Bullimore is a professor at The Ohio State University College of Optometry, 2007),” points out that staring or sitting at a screen for long time can cause health problem such as eyes exhaustion - drying, burning and pain muscle. Also, these children who are playing video more seven hours usually have pain on their back and neck. For these children who addicted to video games usually do not eat healthy because they do not care about healthy food. They just care about how to win on video games which drive to them to eat unhealthy such as junk food because it is easy to make or find. Some people believe one of serious problem that leading children to be unhealthy are feeling lazy when they are playing video games because they do not want to leave or move from screen.  Another problem is that children eat a lot while they are playing video games because they do not pay attention to how much they, so these children will eat junk food; however, they might get overweight (obesity). In the future, those children may get heart attacks or increase risks life even if they are still young.

         Nowadays poor sleep habits are very serious for those who are addicted to video games. People believe that video game addiction leads to young people not getting enough sleep. For example, people stay whole night playing games because they want to win and to get high score, or they are very excited about the game. If children have low energy, due to video games addiction, they sleep poorly. People may hear about these children who addicted games have a problem with getting enough sleep which would cause them to inactive during a day and school.

        It is seemed truth these children who play video games more than seven hours a day have mental health problem, but video games can have a lot of benefits especially at education; for instance, helping students to learn new subject. Also, critics may argue that video games effect people in health and physical, and they show that games help people thinking. In the article “Video Games and Learning (Ault, 2016),” points out that there are some health games, and they can help penitent to get better or improve health such as physical therapy  help penitent who has pain his or her arm to move. However, people still believe to be addicted to video games very painful such as eyes pain. This problem is common today because new technology such as computer which a lot of people are staring at screen computer. Nevertheless, most people who staring at screen for long time wear glasses, and they feel fine with glasses not like in the past people do not want to wear glasses when they have problem with vision. However, having less hours of playing video games can solve the problem that addictions have such as sleeping poorly.

        Children who have poor perform at school mostly because they play video games more than seven hours. These children who addicted to video game they do not focus on class because they play video games with their classmates while the instructor teach; they misunderstand what the instructor points in class or lecture. When instructor gives to them a test, most students who fail on test because video games lead to increased potential for poor attention, which has negative effects on test scores. In the article “Study Link Game Use to Problems in School (Hoke, 2015),” points out that spending too many hours on video games affect children to perform poorly or to be inactive in school which drive them to have lack of successful in school. children who rely on video games a lot are more likely to sleep poorly which leading them to not be inactive during, and they are feeling very tired. For example, children who addicted to video games are unable to finish the work such as homework because they do not want to leave video games, and they might sleep three hours a day. However, they have low energy to activity in school, and they feel lazy.

         It seems truth and amount of people would agree with this problem, but there are children who play video games too many hours, and they can do great a job at school. Video games can help children in school such as to learn math and science, they challenge themselves for who can get high score on the games. In the article “Video Games and Learning (Ault, 2016),” shows that video games help students to engage with or against their classmate, and instructors use video games to help student to understand math and science. Even though, amount of people still believe that video games are good for education, and they give reason students may become addicted which might affect their ability to learn in school. For instance, in the article “Study Link Game Use to Problems in School (Hoke,2015),” demonstrates that children who play video games less hours during week are more successful in school more than those children who play video games too many hours a day or week.
Children who are addicted video games might become violent. As a lot of teenagers play violent video games too many hours they may act more aggressive than those children are not addicted.  For instance, number of children play GTA, Grand theft Auto which is violent games and many children love this game. In the article “Video game addiction and other Internet compulsive disorders mask depression, anxiety, learning disabilities (Miller, 2013),” points out that addicted to violent video games can be as drug which lead people to be become aggressive. For example, students at young age who play violent video games too hours they might fight with other students; moreover, a lot of violent video games show how people are killing by gun which a lot of children play it. In the article “Violent Video Games (Court, 2008),” considers shows that approximately 97% of US children at age 12-17years play violent video games and these could cause children at school such as violence against women, increase in bullying, and shooting people.

        It is seemed truth that violent video games cause children to act aggression, but it has pointed out not all children who play violent video games for long time are becoming a violent. There are some children who play violent games still friendly and nice. In the article “Playing video games can be bad for your health (Harris, 2014),” shows that not all video games reduce problem, and some video games can use to cheer people up because these video games require movement such real activity.  Even thought, people admit that video games reduce problems towards human especially young age who are addicted to violent video games, they will copy what they play on games into real life. For example, they might try to steal weapon from their parents and shooting other, or acting aggressive towards women more likely what happen GTA game.

        Video game addiction is a very serious problem, especially at young age because they will have issues with physical and mental health, and they are more prone to poor performance in school, and they may become a violent. “It is not surprising that most schoolyard shooters and many adult mass murderers played violent video games in their spare time,” James Alan Fox, PHD in Criminology  said. In the other words, it seems that video games especially violent lead people to be aggression or criminal.

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Instagram is bad for mental health

Is Instagram bad for mental health?

         Today social media is popular, and the users are increasing over years.  People from different age are using social media, even retired people (old people) learn how to use them. People use it every day to read or check news such as reading news from Twitter. Therefore, Instagram is part of people’s daily lives. People who feel lonely and stress use social media in general to express their feeling or themselves to other people; it is kind of helping them to check their feeling. Instagram or other social networking allows users to keep connections with followers, and users are able to share information, photos, videos or stories to friends (followers). Nevertheless, young people are relying on Instagram a lot which is different compare in the past generation where there was not social media. Also, Instagram which a lot people use it overseas to share their pictures and stories to friends, so their friends can comment or like to their pictures. Individuals are spending too much time every day which might affect their health.  Yet not all young people realize it, but they cannot stop been addict to Instagram because using Instagram become a routine to most people; these people may want to become a famous on it. Furthermore, Instagram easily leads people feel that their bodies are not in good shape, so they edit and filters such as black and white on their photos in order to look perfect as other users or followers. For example, I remembered when I was in high school my friends and I were using some of social networks platform like WhatsApp to send pictures and funny videos between each other; yet my mother gave me advice that staying a lot on WhatsApp which we used over phone can affect my eyes and learning from school. However, Instagram is bad for mental health because Instagram causes it users to become addict to it.

            Instagram has many features that are very interest to users such as Instagram story, video post, picture post, messaging and video call to their followers. Also, the users use caption and hashtags, so the followers or no followers are able to see the post, and they may become followers if they like the post.  These features people rely on it a lot because it helps them to communicate other followers. Also, users want to become famous like their favorite actress or actors, so they want to get more followers, like and comments. Nevertheless, some users are focus on fashion which lead to rely on Instagram to check new fashion style that their followers or actress who post fancy dress on Instagram. These users feel they are travelling when they see their followers post when they are on vacation at very beautiful and expensive place that they cannot afford to visit. Users see their followers do a lot interest stuff such as travel on their aircraft which leading them to become jealous to it.  Instagram users are anti-social because they are obsessed about their followers instead of talking with someone outside of internet. For example, if individuals have job interview, they are more likely stress out and feel uncomfortable because they are never having communication professionally with real people face to face such as conversations with some strangers in coffee house, street or they do not have much experience about how they start conversation with strangers or with interviewers. 

Recently, there are many studies show that kids usually spend much time every day in social media to check news about video games, movies or their favorite actors, actress, athletic basketball or soccer teams status which cause them to become addict to social media. These kids may have low performance during a day at school or home because they do not get enough sleep whole night every day, or they do not eat health every day. The reasons people become addict to Instagram because it provides many interest features on it such as users can comment and like onto followers’ post, yet these features convince users stay on it and do not leave it.

Therefore, there are sensitive stuffs on the social media which are inappropriate for children to see it such as violent seen or seen for adult and these seen are not allow around children; for instance, news or stories about some guys who have mental problem, these guys can teach children bad stuff through the Instagram, so then very young children get this attitude or behavior from them. This may not happen a lot, but I cannot imagine if children see sensitive material that are not allow for children what are going to happen to them are they going to be effect or have mental issue?

Parents and schools including teachers should be aware about this situation to those children who addict to Instagram because it is happening a lot to students in modern day; they may notice this issue with teenagers also during high school because they want to have attention on school by having more followers than other students in school. It seems children or students become jealous from other, so they spend a lot of time on Instagram then they become addict to it.

These teenagers are checking their followers on Instagram stories and post picture or video, so they may write comment on their picture post or like it every day. Also, teenagers accept following from strangers account, sometimes these strangers might be dangerous to them because they can affect users’ behaviors which may lead to teens to act aggressive toward other or these accounts are fake not real users. These fake accounts may hacker or steel users account or any information; then, these hackers ask users to pay money to them in order to give them back their account or personal information which are painful to these users to stay calm and to hold this situation.

Addiction to Instagram is very common in modern day, people spends hours on it which may these people can be affect their mental health. As most people know one of the reason that people become addict to Instagram because they are interest see what their favorite actress news or they feel bored. In other word, to be addicted to Instagram is similar to who are addicted to drugs or alcohol.  For instance, every day these individuals are posting new picture and sharing video story on Instagram sometimes to impress their friends or they want to get million follow in Instagram it is seen like competition about who have more follow than other. In the article “If We’re All So Sick of You, Facebook, Why Can’t We Quit You?”  the author claims that “daily active… well that covers everyone from the status-updating, picture-posting addict to the time-strapped user who, say, quickly checks her Facebook index every morning as matter of habit” (Dumenco, 408). In other words, being active on social media such as Instagram become a routine to amount of people who check, change status or posting pictures on Instagram daily in the morning or anytime even if they are at work or school. It is similar to people who are addicted  to drugs or alcohol they cannot stop to use it or quit.

In the article “In the Digital Age, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” he explains that many people rely on the internet to manage a great deal of their social lives, so they share too much personal information” (Rodriguez, 416). In other hand, people share their personal information on social network in order to be more social, yet there are bad people who can use other personal information against them. Also, there are amount of people who make their Instagram accounts non-private which can put them in danger because not all people on Instagram are going to be nice to you.

Not all people will have the same view about social media that cause people to have mental issue with their health, they claim that social media can help people to communicate with other people who live far from them easily or to read news instead of reading it from papers.
People can find every type of news: sports, news overseas, technologies, movies, TV shows, medical stuff or new video games coming soon.  For example, in the past some people who live far from their home find it is hard to contact family and friends back home, but now people can contact them or showing their relative including friends and family the new status through Instagram by putting stories or pictures of what they are doing through daily or weekly just to keep them on budge. Moreover, family and close friends are able to comment on the post and message them through the Instagram because this platform gives people opportunity to interact with friends and family, then, people will not feel very warred about their sons or daughters who live or study aboard. Also, it is routine to those people may upload many pictures and stories daily in order to convince other to follow them. They probably have a chance to become famous like celebrities from Hollywood or soccer player who have more than million followers; for example, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson who has over one hundred million followers through Instagram.

But it is clear that Instagram still lead people to have pain and issue with mental health, and it can drive people crazy specially those who do not get sleep and leave it even for just small moment of hours or minutes, so those people hold their smartphones everywhere and all the time. Instagram is one of most popular social media websites or applications that many people are using it, and they depend on it a lot today to have conversations between each other from different part of the world, so individual can show friends that he or she is on good shape. This conversation through the Instagram is not perfect as much people know because usually this conversation is over text not over speak like real need to have skill. There are couple of reasons why these people are not talking with new people: one is these people feel scare of strangers, secure or shy to talk to them. For example, when amount of new international students meets American students or other international students, they stay salient and look into their phones because they are stress out when they enter new places. Also, they do not know how to start conversation with others.  It seems students prefer to stay on Instagram or other social media platform because new generation use it a lot and the users are growing very fast.

Overall, Instagram is affecting people’s mental health which is very bad those people who are addicted to Instagram and should limit their time using it.  As people are not able minimize their time of using Instagram, they are probably going to be effect on mental health more. Someone will argue that we cannot stop using Instagram since social media is gathering many stuff and features that make life easier for users to see interest material on it such as reading news of sports, movies or video games, yet they are wrong people can spend less time on Instagram if they can control themselves such as leaving phone or internet for hours.  There are some beneficial you can do instead of using Instagram; for example, going to gym, exercising outdoor like running, reading or even hangout with your family and close friends, these might help people to avoid Instagram for couple hours, keeping relationship with family and health by avoiding internet. Furthermore, changing routine every day or weekly is very helpful to quit of wasting time on the Instagram or other social media platform which a lot of people use it in present day.  Less using internet will have benefit to our society; people will be more creative and healthy.  

Work Cited:

Rodriguez, Salvador. “In the Digital Age, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” Signs of Life in The USA, edited by Sonia Massik and Jack Solomon, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016, pp. 415–417.

Dumenco, Simon. “If We’re All So Sick of You, Facebook, Why Can’t We Quit You?” Signs of Life in The USA, edited by Sonia Massik and Jack Solomon, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016, pp. 407–409.