Jane McGonigal makes me re-think about what I believe before. Actually, I still feel confused about her intensive speech. She said she recalculated that people need to spend 21 billion hours a week in playing computer games in the future instead of three billion hours as today. However, I think I do not believe that people should have those much time to learn things like collaboration in computer game. I just get confused and cannot understand that why people can feel that successful in computer games instead in the real world. Do you think that the video game would cause bad influence for people? How can people balance the time?
Jane McGonigal makes me re-think about what I believe before. Actually, I still feel confused about her intensive speech. She said she recalculated that people need to spend 21 billion hours a week in playing computer games in the future instead of three billion hours as today. However, I think I do not believe that people should have those much time to learn things like collaboration in computer game. I just get confused and cannot understand that why people can feel that successful in computer games instead in the real world.
Hi, Yiran
As far as I am concerned, the idea of Jane McGonigal that people will spend much time on computer games in the future is reasonable. According to the study about the developing of the computer games, people tend to spend more and more time in playing computer games as time goes by, especially after people combing art into the development of technology. That is the reason why Jane McGonigal infers that in the future, people will spend 21 billion hours a week in playing computer games. But as people keep changing all the time, I do not believe this inference will be true. Moreover, many computer games include violence, eroticism and so on, which is bad for the development of the youth. As reported, some young people kill others and kill themselves under the influence of computer games. Therefore, it is necessary to supervise computer games and limit the youth to spend too much time on computer games. School and parents should spend more time on playing with their children and try to make them realize the importance to spend more time on real life than on computer games. Taking part in outdoor activities is a good way for both adults and children to enjoy the real life. Only when people enjoy real life, can they balance their time and spend proper time on computer games. Great work!
Shelly
Hi, Shelly
Thank you for your response. I would like to say I like your opinion. As you said, supervising computer games is very important, and the parents and schools can spend time with their children to manage the time and choose the content. I think it can both work very well. In china, there are still many children get addicted to the computer games, and I know that many computer games are about shooting or fighting. I do not think that those stories are good for children or teenagers to grow up. Otherwise, if children spend more time do outdoors, it would be very healthy and great for them to pay other attention. So I think your opinion cover a lot of aspects which can help children to enjoy real life. One more thing, I think helping children make more friends is also a good way to avoid them being addicted into computer games.
Yiran