Presentation glog!

http://benja97.edu.glogster.com/video-game-addiction

Video games: Talk !

Hello everybody! Today I’m here to talk to young people about video games, but not the good and entertaining part of this type of gameing. I am here to inform you about the negative consequences that this activity can bring to your life. First of all, let’s talk very briefly about video games. Invented in 1958, "Tennis for Two" was the first video game in history. As the years passed, video games evolved. They became more sophisticated, with better graphics and longer stories and game modes. These days, video games allow us to get into a new world, to interact with people all over the world, to be someone else. This is what is making people addicted to them. They can be and do whatever they want to; there are no limits. Disturbing as it may sound, doctors have qualified video game addiction as a disorder.  But, what kind of consequences may an addiction like this generate? There are many answers to this question, but I am going to focus in the one I think is the most harmful one: social consequences, such as isolation.

The correct definition of isolation is a state of separation between persons or groups. At this point, you may be asking yourself, how can video games make a teenager separate himself from society? Once again, there are many answers for this question. First, video games capture the total attention of players in such a way, that an excessive amount of time playing will lead the player to be obsessed with video games.  Some of them get so obsessed with their game of choice that people no longer want to be around them. This may give the gamer a feeling of being leaved aside, and he may feel also offended because of this. Commonly these situations lead the player to spend more hours playing, because it is something that he enjoy, and it is a place where it’s easier to engage social relationships (of course, not real ones).

Players may also spend a lot of time playing instead of sleeping. The lack of sleep may make the person irritable, and difficult to be around. Also, this situation decreases the energy that the person could use to interact with others. We may also add that some video games can turn the player into an aggressive person. Once again, this specific situation makes the person someone difficult to be around, and hard to talk with, because he is constantly attacking (not necessarily physically, but also in a verbal way) others.

Either through physical or psychological consequences, video games turn the player into a person who cuts relations with society. I am already at the end of this talk, I say goodbye to everybody, hoping you enjoyed this talk. 

Task: video game addiction

Last class, we watched a video called "Play", that reffers to the human dependencie to video games, and how addictive this are for the ones who play them. This video must be taken as a referene for our next task, within other sources we must select.

Subtopic: isolation, how people addicted to games step aside from society.

Text type: Talk

Sources: http://www.video-game-addiction.org/social-consequences.html
                          http://www.livestrong.com/article/278074-negative-effects-of-video-game-addiction/
                       

Personal response

“Advertising is everywhere you look, whether it is in the newspaper you pick up daily or on that billboard you see while driving down the highway. Some people may say that they are not in fact influenced by the advertising that is thrown at them each day, and that they do not fall into it, but everyone does.”

Advertising is actually everywhere you look. At the present day, advertising is an important part of our society; it actually shows as how we are, or what we like, our tendencies and interests.  This is why we can’t avoid its influence. The whole society is being guided by the new tendencies and products shown on advertisings, which is, for me, a bad and also a good thing. I believe this “force” that convince us on buying certain products is somehow a bad thing, because it shows you in a hidden way of course, that if you don’t follow what advertisings show, then you are not part of society. For example, clothes we use. The way people dress have been changing with the years, as enterprises what it to. If advertisings of clothing market shows us what is coming up next in clothes, then we will probably buy those clothes in order to feel that we are part of society.

If we look at the bright side of advertising, they allows us to be informed about the direction different tendencies are taking, and they also shows us a variety of products that we can have access to; we are able to pick one product instead of others that are similar, to decide what we like, and to see what people like, because as we said before, advertising is a mirror of society.