Sunday, March 16, 2008

Computer addiction

Teenagers nowadays have their eyes glued to the computer screen for 24 hours. They are addicted to online games like defense of the ancients or maplestory. Online games were originally to ease the stress of many youths but yet it has become a killer to all teens.
Firstly,computer gaming is a waste of time,many of the teens spend half the day sitting in front of the computer screen without doing any homework or any revision.This has lead to many youths neglecting their studies or even worse,dropping out of schools.As a student,our main jobs is to study hard and do our stuff,computer gaming has caused many teens to forget their original purpose.
Computer gaming can be a risk to our health too. Lo oking at the monitor for too long may caused our eyes to be damaged and become short-sighted.Many of the youths are wearing spectacles mainly due to computer. Playing for too long may caused you to be too exhausted. This will caused your brain to be agitated by the bright lights and flashing images of the computer screen. All these may lead to sudden death. Will it be worth it to end your life for computer gaming?
However,computer gaming may not be that harmful afterall.It has its pros too. Online gaming progresses very fast,in order to win we have to keep up with their speed. Our reflexes would be faster. Like some games, it would help to create a sense of justice in us. We might be able apply these in our daily life.
On the whole,computer gaming has its pros and cons. It may be harmful to us but at the same time,it could benefit us too. If we could moderate between the pros and cons,we could make use of the pros and get rid of the cons. We should strictly cap on the time we spent on the computer.

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