Friday 28 October 2011

Addicted to games: Internet game addiction



One form of internet addiction is gaming addiction. Internet gaming addiction and getting lost in playing video games has been regognised a long time. Recently I saw a interview with a person claiming to have been hooked on pac -man probably 20-30 years ago. We probably had a little growth in this problem when people (kids) started hooking up lots of computers together and playing games on few computers at the same time (on a LAN). These tournaments were often at first related to games like Counterstrike. But the rise of the problem came with the internet and high speed internet connections. Now it is so easy to play with lots of people all over the world 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Therefore has the problem we can name Internet game addiction grown to a big problem. Media attention has been growing past 3 years at the same time interest in playing online games like World of Warcraft has grown, so has the problem.
Some people will say this games can never been a obsession or addiction, but the truth is Kids and adolescence are stop showing up in school and in worst cases we have seen people have been committing suicides. Recently we have seen case of child neglect in relation to the parents internet game addiction. These cases of problems with gaming addiction will grow and we will see more stories on the news on this problem.

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