With more video games and consoles than ever before, parents are becoming worried about their children gaming too much and becoming addicted. Many children and teens go through this and spends hours, days, week and even months locked away playing computer games in their room. This becomes their reality, and their constant craving. When they are playing games they are fully involved in it and are content, when they are taken away from it for school/work etc it is all they think about and is the first thing they do when they return home. Most people see addiction as a bad thing, but for some people gaming is an escape from their reality, they become an alter ego and are un-defeatable - this is where post-humanism applies.
The Pros and Cons of Gaming
Pros
- Encourages co-operation
- Relives boredom
- It's fun
- Socialize with people online
- People may become secluded and shut off from the world
- Create an alter-ego in the gaming world and live vicariously through that.
- Will not socialized with 'real' people
- May encourage violence (Columbine High School Massacre)
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