Hortatory Text Fatma Yulia Putri

Impact of Online Games on Children's Behavior   

by Fatma Yulia Putri

lately, online gaming has become a very big business. Companies that produce online games have made them grow rapidly because they have so many users. Unfortunately, they don't care whether they are adults or children, as long as they can make a profit from it. They also do not realize their products have a negative impact on young users such as children and adolescents.

Online games often show acts of violence. Some of the acts of violence are: shooting other players, stabbing with knives, hitting other characters with baseball bats, crashing and running over several other players using cars and much more. The children who played this really enjoyed the activity, they even laughed while doing it because they thought it was a game. They don't realize it affects their behavior. We can see through the news on TV that there are underage children who commit acts of violence against their own friends and others. one reason is that they play online games at online store and are far from the supervision of parents.

All online game companies make money through purchase items made by players or users. Every user who wants to be great at the game needs to use their money to buy special equipment or additional items to increase their level. The problem is they don't have the money to do that. We can guess what happens next. Children will take money from their parents and use the money to buy something in the game. There have been many reports about this, some no longer about thousands but transactions that are worth millions of rupiah.

Therefore, parents should watch their children while using computer. And don't often allow the children go to online store.