Millions and millions of videogames are sold each year (Gartner). According to Gartner video game console hardware and software, online, mobile and PC games, reach $79 billion in 2012, and $93 billion in 2013, and the market is forecast to reach $111 billion by 2015. Although it may be beneficial to companies, since they are making money and getting rich, it also causes a negative impact on the society such as students from all ages. Students should stop playing video games because due to the effect that video games cause addiction, it distracts students from school and causes them to fall behind in their classes. Not only that it also prevents students from going out to enjoy the outside world and causes their academic skills to drop.
Addiction is one of the biggest issues students face from gaming because it cause students to fall behind their classes and leads to bad grades. Addiction means “a strong and harmful needs to regularly have or do something” (“Addictive”). Kristin Klaning states, “social …show more content…
Drea Christopher, a writer with a bachelor degree states that kids who have an addiction to gaming are more unwilling to participate in any interests or extracurricular activities other than gaming and are constantly thinking about their next video games session and are devising ways back to get into the game. This causes them to forget about other things that are happening on the outside world and focus on their games instead. This issue takes them away from socializing with family and friends around them and ruins their childhood. According to Emily Hughes, kids who play video games are less likely to go out and compete in extracurricular activities which inhibit them from meeting new people and making friends. The effect from this is that it prevents students from experiencing things that a normal child would do, like go outside to hang out with friends, play a sport together, or just go on a
Addiction is one of the biggest issues students face from gaming because it cause students to fall behind their classes and leads to bad grades. Addiction means “a strong and harmful needs to regularly have or do something” (“Addictive”). Kristin Klaning states, “social …show more content…
Drea Christopher, a writer with a bachelor degree states that kids who have an addiction to gaming are more unwilling to participate in any interests or extracurricular activities other than gaming and are constantly thinking about their next video games session and are devising ways back to get into the game. This causes them to forget about other things that are happening on the outside world and focus on their games instead. This issue takes them away from socializing with family and friends around them and ruins their childhood. According to Emily Hughes, kids who play video games are less likely to go out and compete in extracurricular activities which inhibit them from meeting new people and making friends. The effect from this is that it prevents students from experiencing things that a normal child would do, like go outside to hang out with friends, play a sport together, or just go on a