Video Games can have negative impact on people's lives by trapping them in a "fantasy world"

Video Games are nowadays one of the most common ways of entertainment for children and young adults in general. In the past, children used to interact to each other more and play outside of the house, they would usually play sports or kids play such as hide-n-seek or jumping the rope. Now, with the advancement of technology and highly-sophisticated games, most of the children and adolescents are now choosing to stay home and play video games.

For most of the people, my self included, this is a negative outcome brought by these super technological games. A lot of people blame some Video Games for being to violent, therefore influencing children and teenagers to act more violently in real life. However, besides the violence issue, there is another aspect that concerns me. For example, games like "The Sims", the one on the image, portrays people living their lives as if it was real.

The way I see it, there are several problems within this game, and some of this problems are shown in this image. First, this is a game where you create a "character" and then you basically make him live and do whatever you tell him to do. But to me this is a bit ironic. Instead of people going outside and live their own lives, their prefer to stay behind the computer and live their character's life. This attitude may be linked to some stereotypes and prejudice in real life. For example, if a person is not popular in real life and it is not considered "good-looking" according to the society patterns this person is living in, they are very likely to play these games in order to escape from the hardships of the real world. This could be very damaging, because they get caught up in the video game life, which is not real and then they forget to fight the injustices of the real world. Another problem related to this image, is that contents of this game is very inappropriate for kids at a younger age. Yet, majority of players that are interested in these kind of game are those who are not prepared for the content of the game, which includes having sex and doing illicit drugs.