Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? playing computer games is a waste of time.
I disagree with people who think that videogames have a bad influence on children and that they are a waste of time. It depends on which type of videogames we are talking about and how much time children spend their time on them.
Videogames, as much as toys or any other game, are something that children play when they need a break from homework that they have to complete and from their daily routines. I don’t see why they shouldn’t be allowed to play them; some people and parents usually think that by playing videogames children won’t be able to interact properly with other kids anymore. But I think this believe is not totally correct, because nowadays it is possible to play in mode multiplayer, which means that more than one person can play at the same time and children can interact to each other while playing. Thanks to internet, it is also possible to play on-line with multiple players from all over the world and to communicate with them by using chats and sending on-line messages. In some cases and with special microphones it also possible to talk to each other.
And to talk to someone from China or France players have to speak a foreign language, most commonly English. In this way, a lot of children are more encouraged to learn English or other languages, and they do it better and easier than if they learn them at school.
For example, my brother spent a couple of hours playing videogames on- line every day last year, and his English has improved a lot. This happened thanks to the conversations he had online with a guy from London, while they were virtually trying to “conquered Nort Corea”.
On the other way, when children start to spend every hour of their free time on the screens, then we got a problem! I know there have been cases in the last few years of children who lost their friends and didn’t have a social life anymore because they always refused to go out. after a while, they stopped having any kind of human contact, even to talk or to connect with other players on-line, and they started to be depressed. But fortunately, the percentage of these kind of kids is very low.
To conclude, I believe that in every thing we all do, finding a balance is always a good thing. Children should find a compromise between playing videogames, on-line or not, and playing in the “real” world with other children. This would increase their social skills and they would be able to play videogames as they want whitout worried their parents or caregivers.
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Playing computer games is a waste of time.
I disagree with those who think that videogames harm children and that they are a waste of time. It depends on which type of videogames we are talking about and how much time children spend on them.Videogames, as much as toys or any other game, are something that children play when they need a break from homework and from their daily routine. I don’t see why they shouldn’t be allowed to play them; some people and parents think that playing them stops children from interacting properly with other kids. But I think that this is not totally true, because nowadays it is possible to play in multiplayer mode, meaning that more than one person can play at the same time and children can interact to each other while playing. Thanks to the internet, it is also possible to play on-line with multiple players from all over the world and to communicate with them by chat and sending on-line messages. In some cases and with special microphones it also possible to talk to each other.
And to talk to someone from China or France players have to speak a foreign language, most commonly English. In this way, many children are encouraged to learn English or other languages, and they do it better and easier than if they learn them at school.
For example, my brother spent a couple of hours playing videogames on- line every day last year, and his English has improved a lot. This happened thanks to the conversations he had online with a guy from London, while they were virtually trying to “conquer North Korea”.
Conversely, when children start to spend every hour of their free time by the screen, then we have a problem! I know that there have been cases in the last few years of children who lost their friends and lost their social life because they always refused to go out. After a while, they stopped contacting humans, even to talk or to connect with other players on-line, and they started to be depressed. But fortunately, they are very few in number.
To conclude, I believe that in everything we do, finding a balance is always a good thing. Children should compromise between playing videogames, on-line or not, and playing in the “real” world with other children. This would increase their social skills and they would be able to play videogames as they want without worrying their parents or carers.
Very well written!
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well, not such a thing like video games should be banned of the internet, video games are great but not for everyone, there's a lot of kids, even gown up people who have no control of themselves, they need the adrenaline they get by the videogames and yeah, they may interact with people through internet, but it's not gonna be a real friendship like what your gonna need when you feel alone, or sad, or why not, at any financial problems, and that's what the friends are for, giving you some company, receiving an advice when necessary etc.
it's sad but, some people becomes basically addicted to video games Wich is the case of my brother. anyway, videogames are fun but you have to know how and give it its respective moments .
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Agree with you. Best regards.
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