First Person Shooter notes
1) Provide an outline of what the video is about?
- teenager who are addicted to computer games, particularly “ First person shooter”
- parent’s are worried that computer games will take over their child’s life, such as they will fall behind in school, having no interest in having friends or a job
- Teenagers are avoiding reality, when tough things happen or their homework is to hard they turn to virtual reality
- The effects that computer games that will have on real life situations
- The health effects computer games have on teenagers, such as seizures and being violent towards their parents when they tell them to get off the game.
2) What would you have done if you were the parents? If I was a parent of a teenager who became addicted to a video game and became violent towards me, I would unplug the computer or even taken the computer away from them. If that didn’t work I would ground them and take away all of their privileges such as the TV and they wouldn’t be allowed to go out the only place they would be allowed to go would be school and the only thing they would be allowed to do would be homework.
3) Is it a concern that this might happen to either you or someone you know (video game addiction?) Explain. It wouldn’t be a concern to me as I barely ever play video games and if I do the only games I do play are the ‘Sims’ and ‘Ratchet and Clank’ and even then I don’t play them for very long because they get boring very easily. Also, I don’t think it is a concern to anyone I know as like me they barley ever play video games, and when they do they aren’t those violent games like “First person shooter”.
4) In your opinion are video games addictive in a dangerous way? Before I watched the video on video games I didn’t think that they were addictive, but now that I have watched the video I believe they can have dangerous side effects. However, with boundaries and rules these problems can be overcome.
