Video Game Online Addiction Among Young Adults

Because of this video game pandemic, parents need to be more educated on why teens become addicted, how they become addicted, what makes video games so addicting, and how to prevent addiction from happening. Many teens become addicted or vulnerable to video game addiction because of the lack of successful experiences in real life (Vitelli). Because of this, many children and teens turn towards video games to avoid their real life problems, almost like how you’d take a vacation to relax. Some adolescents have difficulties coping with and in their lives (Vitelli). Not being able to cope with day to day activities and problems in real life make teens extremely vulnerable to video game addiction.

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Furthermore, the Internet gives a constant source of information and entertainment to every people, and could be accessed from almost every smart phones as well as tablets, and laptops. Most social networking sites allow both public and private communication about any topic. Based on Young (2013), “Each person’s Internet use is different. One might need to use the Internet extensively for work, for example, or an individual might rely heavily on social networking sites to keep in touch with faraway family and friends. Spending a lot of time online only becomes a problem when it absorbs too much of one’s time, causing them to neglect their relationships, work, school, or other important things in their lives.” Many students use the internet in order to release their feelings of loneliness, anxiety, stress, and depression from school.

As the time passes, technology is expanding and developing many creative ideas. Unlike past, nowadays we have computers, TVs, internet, and many inventions that contain bad and good effects on us. Children used to interact with society by hanging out and playing sports with each other, but now as we can see a big percentage of children who play video games for many hours daily. Addiction controls life of people, there is addiction to drugs, cigarettes, alcohol or gambling, and there are some forms of addiction associated with modern life, such as Internet and video games. Most people think that video games are harmful and waste of time.

d. This will cause the other child to lash out and comment back. e. Many children and adolescents who become addicted to video games all so become socially awkward, not only with other children but with their own family. f. Some adolescents that are addicted to playing video games become hard to talk too. III. Videos games affect not only behavior but school and school work.

With the increasing amount of time that people are spending on video games, one is left to wonder, is possible to become addicted to video games? Do we need video game addiction to be an official diagnosis? Yes, because if it is its own separate diagnosis there will be more focused treatment. Anyone old enough to remember Video Arcades will probably remember when video games cost a single quarter to play. Yet there were always those who managed to spend entire days playing with only a few dollars.

The use of the internet has become essential to today’s world with the availability of all types of information found at the click of a computer mouse. For adolescents the internet can help with schoolwork, but it also provides a platform for communication and entertainment with the world. Because relationships, information and gaming are readily available, it is possible for adolescents to become addicted to the internet and what it offers. The desire to be connected to the internet can inhibit an adolescent’s social, school and personal life and the causes, symptoms, research, treatment and prevention of adolescent internet addiction are essential to understanding and treating the addiction. The causes of adolescent internet addiction are outlined by a number of triggering factors.

Along with all of the good that this has brought a new disorder is arising, internet addiction disorder. Although internet addiction disorder has not been added as of yet to the DSM hopes by the researchers are high that it will be added in the future editions. Much research has been done to understand the complexities of the disorder. Most of the research has been done on youth and young, college age adults because they seem to be the most vulnerable. Our young people are growing up with the internet and rely on it much more than older adults at the present.

The hugest problem with these video games is they are becoming too violent. In today’s society, kids often brag about the new video game they brought, and the number of people they’ve managed to kill while playing these games. Video games have become more and more realistic, causing them to intrigue more and more children. Many of these violent video games encourage killing and fighting of enemies, or strangers in the game. Each year a new game system, and hundreds of video games are released, and millions of kids go out and buy them.