Saturday, August 1, 2020
Parents Have The Wrong Idea of Online Video Games
Parents are always talking about how teens need to get outside and off their video games. Parents want their kids to be more social and talk to people. I feel like parents only see video games as an addiction, they don’t actually know what we do other than just sit down staring at a screen for many hours a day. I don’t think they know that we’ve made multiple friends and great friendships during our times playing video games. Parents always think that everyone online is a stranger and that we should stay away from them. There’s actually a very little amount of people that are dangerous online, everyone else just wants to play and make new friends. This is obvious, but as long as you don’t click any fishy links or give out any personal information you should be fine talking to people online. Parents have a completely wrong idea of what online video gamers are. They’ve never taken the time to actually look into it, instead, they jump to conclusions without any second thought.
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Hello, Chris,
ReplyDeleteThe misinterpretation of video games made by parents most definitely derives from either the lack of experience, or interest, with such forms of entertainment. Similarly to how some people don't understand why their parents enjoy listening to music from decades ago, some parents don't understand why their children enjoy playing video games. It could have to do with the lack of video games during their childhood, and once video games began to be much more common, it seemed like a childish hobby to pick up. Or video games just didn't seem worth the time to play them. Whatever the reason, not every form of entertainment will actually be appealing to someone. As time goes by, and decades pursue, video games will most likely be much more loved by the new generations of parents who grew up during a time where video games were the most popular and profitable form of entertainment.
Playing online video games can help anti-social kids make friends with equally anti-social friends through the interest of the games they play. Parents can't understand how it feels to make online friends who simply just want to play the game with a friend. Almost everyone on online games mainly want a friend to play with and talk to. Parents most likely don't understand this because, like Claudio said, they aren't interested or had a lack of the games we have now. They don't understand why we play video games, much less why we make friends online. They want to protect us from talking with anyone to make sure we don't give out any personal information, but I think at this point we understand that. As long as we don't do anything like screen recording our IPv6 or IPv4, or send out any sort of passwords or personal information, we'll be okay.
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