How Online Video Games Controlled Children’s Mind

                                    Laura Y. Tan, Meta A. Wulandari, Synai J. Marscalofa

    “We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.” – Tom Bissell

         

     Children really like to play games, especially online video games. An online game is a video game that partially played through the Internet or other computer networks. Online games are everywhere on modern gaming platforms on a computer, mobile devices, and Xbox. Every online video game has it values. Quote from Tom Bissell, we could admit that children mindsets could break down because of online video games effect. Children’s mindsets may take the values from online video games incorrectly. They might have the oversensitive temperament in any action near them, high level of stress, aggressive behavior and some social problems like.

     Children’s imaginations are controlled their mind because of the effect of game. The imaginations that go too far makes the children lived in their fantasy world all the time. One of proof that Victoria L. Dunckley M.D explain:

"Aiden’s brain and psyche become overstimulated and excited — on fire! His nervous system shifts into high gear and settles there while he attempts to master different situations, strategizing, surviving, accumulating weapons, and defending his turf."

Based on this, we can say that the online video games snatch his children live. It makes the children behave in the real world and the fantasy same. 

     Children could mix up between the real-life world and their fantasy world because of online video games effect, which can lead the children to do some violence or overthinking about their surroundings. They might murder their own mates by doing the same thing on what they see and play in the online video games, for example, kicking, punching, say a bad word, etc. They might do it because of their sense when playing the online video games to survive in their environment that actually it’s a real life.

     Another point, most of the children like to play online games rather than play with other children near them. It must play minimum of two players. The example of online video games is the clash of clan, clash royal, mobile legend, and Summoners war. Emily Hughes wrote that:

     Another negative aspect of video games is the fact that kids are spending too much time playing the games rather than physically playing outside.

     The online video games are made with good audio, visual and theme. Then, children can play the video games in their favorite place in their house without going out. Online video games must play online with other people around the world who play the same game. Thus, it makes the children play with other people online. Online video games have a lot of strategies to make children curious about the challenges that will happen next. Therefore, it encourages children to play until the end. In this case, the children usually avoid socializing with other children and an adult near them, they just socialized with online people only all day. Because of that, children difficult to socialize with people around them.

     In our opinion, we believed that the children who affected by online video games might have some problem. In every online video game, it has values. When they take the value through games in a wrong way, it will make them change their temper into sensitive with others, always aggressive and high level of stress of everything near them. They will always spend their time with online people rather than children or adult near them. That is why it makes them have some social problem.