Overview

     
     Video games are often viewed as something that is a distraction to people, especially children. I think it's important to talk about the benefits of video games and what positive impacts games could have cognitively, physically and socially. Everything in life should be done in moderation of course, however when done in moderation, gaming can help improve many things. I think its important to point out and understand which games are better for people and more beneficial to play than others. Comparing the level of enjoyability and popularity to how beneficial the game is to the person playing. 

     
     Although this topic is contradictory and not everyone will agree that video games have any benefits to people. Many believe that video games promote laziness and have a factor in increasing obesity rates and so on, but the way technology has improved throughout the years it is hard to generalize all video games to have negative affects. There are studies to defend the fact that video games can in fact be beneficial to gamers in various psychological ways.

        It is also important to figure out why video games have such a bad reputation. So, alongside talking about the benefits that video games can have I will also be talking about why and how video games can be dangerous as well. Rather than saying, "video games promote isolation," I will be approaching the prompt as, "why is it that video games can make one isolated?" It is important to see things in this light, so that we can reverse the "negative" aspect and turn it into a positive.