Positive and Negative Effects of Online Gaming

Last Updated on December 16, 2021 by Sohail Qaisar

As you all know that, playing online games is a trend now. You can not find people who haven’t played online games in their entire life. One thing we know that is playing online games will bring eye stress to the players. The actual truth is playing online games will have both positive and negative effects. Let us discuss them in detail.

Positive Effects of Online Gaming

  • Enhances the Cognitive Functions – The online gamers can improve their cognitive functions by playing online games. The combination of focus and the surges of neurotransmitters will strengthen the neural circuits that make the brain.
  • Decision-Making and Accuracy – The online gamers can able to make the quick decision. Online gaming trains the brain to take quick decisions without losing the precision. Without any doubt, you can play these games in order to make quick & accurate judgments.
  • Hand and Eye Function – It is needless to mention that, the online gamers will play their games with the utmost coordination of their hand and eyes. Every online game requires the players to use their hand and eye for the game to be successful.
  • Enhance the Teamwork – Multiplayer online games will enhance the teamwork among the gamers. The gamers will use the most of their skills to win the game for their team. The gamers will learn about winning the game as a team.

Negative Effects of the Online Gaming

  • Aggressive Behavior – Every player would like to win the game and hence they develop aggressive behavior. The shooting games will induce bad vision to the gamers and the gamers see the society in the same vision.
  • Loner – Of course, the gamers that spend most of their time in playing online games cannot spend time with their friends and families. If the same thing continues, they want to be alone all the time.
  • Wrong Values – Certain online games teaches wrong values to the gamers. The online games depict women as weaker characters and sexually provocative characters. The gamers will take that and they do behave badly with the women in reality.
  • Impact on Health – Yes, the gamers that take part in playing the online games would not like to participate in any such activities that make them fit and fine. Not taking part in the fitness activities leads to health disorders like video induced seizures, obesity, skeletal and postural disorder, never compression, muscular disorder, numbness in shoulders, hands and elbows.
  • Bad Academic Performance – Playing online games for a long time will create a negative impact on your child’s academic performance. The more your children spend in playing online games, the sooner they fall asleep. Lack of concentration will be an issue to the children that spend more time in playing online games. Some children would fall to the online games and a kind of addiction will happen to them. Teenagers and students are more prone towards the harmful effects of online games.

Verdict

Now, I hope that you might have understood the optimistic and pessimistic effects of playing online games. There are some advantages and disadvantages of online games, playing is not a bad one, but you should stick to your limits. Don’t waste too much time and take it as entertainment to relieve stress.

Sohail Qaisar

Sohail Qaisar is the founder and managing editor of TechBead, he founded TechBead in 2011. He is a tech geek, social media enthusiast and gaming addict. Contact him on the following email address: contact@techbead.com

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