Mobile Games' Disadvantages

The Adverse Effects of Mobile Games

                Mobile games, online entertainments, have become more and more popular among people of all ages from all across the globe, especially growing children. Since a mass number of growing children are addicted to them, it is profoundly crucial to acknowledge that not only can they jeopardize their mental health, but they affect children’s physical health as well. Also, they hinder success as children who indulge in mobile games tend to neglect their studies since most of their time are devoted to playing such games. This is no wonder why children who are addicted to mobile games always fail in their school’s examinations. This should never happen. As for me, I sturdily agree tat mobile games give adverse effects to their users because addiction to mobile games is detrimental to health, hinders success, and inhibits socialization.

                Predominantly, addiction to mobile games is indubitably perilous to health. To clarify, addicts of mobile games are so besotted in playing games that they tend to skip meals or even sacrifice sleep, which later will endanger their health. Besides, those gamers will also suffer from backaches, eye strain or numbness in their wrists after playing games for a long period of time. These may later result in fatigue and dreadful headaches. Also, since addicts spend most of their free time gaming, they will surely lack of time to take care of their personal hygiene which includes taking bath, brushing teeth, combing hair and many more. Furthermore, since addicts feel eager to thrive in the games they play so that they can achieve another level, they will also more likely to stress out whenever they do not manage to do so. When this happens, they will end up devoting more and more time to playing the games until they succeed. Mobile games, can hence, corrupt one’s life if not played in moderation.

                Aside from the above point, another tremendous effect of mobile games is they corrupt one’s life as they hinder success. Since addicts often suffer from sleep deprivation, they will get knackered all day long as a result of staying late at night playing mobile games. As a result, they will more likely to fail to work at their optimum level. For students themselves, this will definitely result in lower academic performances. Since so much time is devoted to mobile games, gamers will have no time to spend on beneficial activities to fuel success such as studying. Also, excessive gaming imperils and individual’s chance of achieving their full potential in order to perform well at school or workplace. This will not only waste the individual talents, but also affect the society as well. Therefore, excessive gaming should never be a fad as it hinders one’s success.

                Last but not least, mobile games addiction is detrimental as it alienates people. To make it lucid, addicts often spend too much time on gaming that they tend to ignore people, as if they are invisible. For instance, they abandon their families, peers and even avoid face-to-face communications they prefer to spend time on playing games by themselves. As these happen, they withdraw from society as they do not feel the necessity to do so. Not only that, they will also start to consider their own families as nuisance and later distance themselves from them, which will eventually result in disruption of their relationship with their families. This is so unhealthy since addiction will lead to self-exclusion from society, and ultimate depression or loneliness. Hence, it has been proven that mobile games bring more harms than good as they alienate people.

                All in all, there is no doubt that mobile games do bring adverse effects to their users. They contain enough jeopardy to critically corrupt one’s life. Thus, obliged parties such as parents should start limiting their children’s time on gaming as mobile games endanger children’s mental and physical health, impede success, and inhibit socialization. If enough awareness is raised on this subject, I am sure all these adverse effects can be halted. As the saying goes, “Prevention is better than cure.” It is time for us to roll our sleeves upon this matter.