Do Video Games Make Kids More Violent Essay

Do Video Games Make Kids More Violent?
Video games are one of the most addictive things in the world. Researchers said that more than 1.2 billion people are playing games worldwide whatever genre is. Many people buy it to have fun with friends, other people buy it for themselves, and others just buy it because they don’t have nothing to do at home. What many people concern about is whether or not kids should play video games. In my opinion, I believe that video games can make kids more violent for three main factors.
First of all, video games are very addictive mainly. Usually, young people prefer action and violent games. For them it’s fun, but they don’t realize that it can be a weapon to change their behavior through society. On example is one of my cousins who had 10 years old when he began playing

violent games. He was a smart guy, with a good status on the primary school, and he never showed a bad or violent behavior there. However, this behavior began to change when he had his first disagreement with one of his classmate. Everybody became astonished with him. His mother tried to talk with him but he was rude with her. He didn’t want to talk with anybody. His mother though it was because of the video games, so she took away the video game. My cousin was yelling and screaming because of it. After 2 weeks without playing video games, he changed his behavior. He began behaving well through his family and friends, and his status started to increase again. In my opinion, had my cousin not to have violent games, he would not have behaved as he behaved before.
Moreover, violent games can make people very frustrated. For people who became easily angry, violent games is not a good thing to spend their time on. Usually, those violent games have levels of difficulty. It starts with the first level, which is easy, until the highest level, which are harder. When people are playing on the high level, the game becomes very hard to pass. They start getting angry easily and they start yelling at him self. Most of them began to talk alone like crazy. For example, I have a friend that always is talking alone, and when I go to talk with him or to ask what happened, he said that he didn’t pass the last level of a war game. He explained that he has to pass the game because he may win a kind of money from it.

Many people say that video games can be good for education.

According to a research done by the New York University, educational videogames can motivate students and it “may yield learning benefits”. Another research done by the Texas A&M International University says that Violent video games helps to relieve stress. It can be true, but it also influences kids negatively. Violent games usually contain explicit language. Kids may learn from the game. They may imitate what they see or hear on the video game. For kids who are learning new language for example, violent games are not a good thing for them. They start learning bad words, slangs and it may affect their learning

process.
In conclusion, I believe that violent games can change or make kids more violent in real life. It wasn’t my case. I agree with some country’s policy to band video games in their country. That’s the example of China’s.

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