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Some drawbacks of video games may be that you might learn to play a certain video game, but you may obtain bad personal habbits or even bad social habbits. When I was growing up we were being introduced to games that were for more mature kids, like GTA San Andreas and some other games that had some language that wasn’t meant for the younger kids. They may have had the language bleeped out or something like that, I still could make out what they were talking about. Some social skills needed for the real world may have been taken away from kids or altered from a video games. You may start to program your brain to use violence for a situation that didn’t need to be violent in the first place.
I guess my point is that some video games may have influenced bad language or bad socializing which are good habbits.
I guess my point is that some video games may have influenced bad language or bad socializing which are not good habbits.
Reubenrs makes a good point with socializing. However, the way I look at it, I see it as a way of not learning how to socialize face-to-face with other people. You may be able to talk all you want over the video game chat or online, but as soon as you meet face-to-face, that ability to socialize is gone. It comes back to identity. I am sure that many of us are more comfortable talking to people online because we can not see their expressions and what they look like, and vice versa.
This is something that you are not able to learn from video games. Though there could be some argument that more games are becoming more of party games, such as some that are available for the Wii. But that interaction is not the same as socializing with conversation.
with in most video games bad things are taught such as in any shotter u are taught to kill things or steal or something along those lines. i beleive that yes some games do give the viewer alot of entertainment with this format of game play but than it also dehumanizes that viewer.
another draw back is you enjoy this source of entertainment more than other duller entertainment such as books and what not.