Addicted to Games?

Is it me or is it the games that had myself drawn into the computer gaming scene? Apparently I've been playing video games throughout those years as it's going to offer that constant pleasure and could last for a while. It seems nowaday that it could be classified as a hobby, sports or part of the daily life, but that's not the case.

Over the past few days, BBC Panorama aired an episode about the rise of gaming addiction. Specifically it explores the impact on how video games become part of the everyday life and youth culture. It also includes individuals that became so obsess with the growth of online gaming and staffs' view regarding the prospect that video games has in the modern society that we're living in. Here it is:





Although it's often compared to alcohols and cigarettes, it's likely to be something stimulating within your social life. For instant you're going to get drawn into it a lot and cannot break free from the immersity of a particular game. So far we already had students that experienced damaging effect as they unable to keep up with their university studies and faced difficulties with their social issues.

What's even more intriguing is how it became the subject of uncertainty as obssessive gamers miraculously died from hours of gaming without any sleep or abandon their children in favour of gaming. It left the question mark on whether their fate would have consequences that will be unjustified. Otherwise the addiction had already took over their lives as it consider to be uncontrollable.

Plus it does reflect on how we adapt to these new gadgets and technology of the present days. For example how video games defined the modern society and community that we're living in. I assume everybody had already owned most of those current-gen consoles as it could be indispensable to them. And what I mean by indispensable? They won't let go of it. Plus it does mean one thing: looks like everybody are connected and ready for some online gaming!