what do I think about gaming?

So I have been asked today to think and discuss about how i feel about online gaming. If Im completely honest I can only ever remember playing one online game,...... DX Ball. I was in my first year of comprehenesive school and spent every evening for a month playing it, trying to beat my sisters score. Apart from that I have very little expirience of online gaming. However although i do not have the greatest experience, I do have some strong opinions to how I feel about online gaming. Online gaming can be an amzing thing but at the same time can be dangerous, addictive and can cause trouple (e.g online poker etc). Everyday I see at least one person on thier phone, ipad or computer playing some kind of game whether it be candy crush, flow, GTA or MOTOR GP. These games can all be fun and inicent if played in moderation, and in spare time around thier every day lives. Lots of poeple become addicted to these games and will spend hours all day and night playing them, trying to get to new levels. I belivee this is unhealthy as it is shutting them off from the real world and making them believe that they can do things that is illegal or bad. How can a game where you get into the head of being a killer healthy and safe for children to be playing? Would you really want your children fantisising over shooting people or blowing up cars and causing mass distruction? there is always the cahnce that people get so involved in these kind of games that they could one day turn out like that in real life. Howveer although I disagree with these types of games, I also feel that there are games which can benefit you and make your brain work and think faster. An example of this is flow, which is a game where you realy have to think hard about how to complete it and it is almot like solving a puzzle in school. Other games such a moto gp have posotives and negatives.... A boy at the age of 15 could buy it and by playing it could get a feel for driving, gears, accelarating and braking which could then help him when learning to drive. Howver on the other hand he could be so used to going at 200mph and crashing,driving on the side walk etc that it could have an effect on him when driving casuing danger to him self and others. As you can see I have little experience myself, yet know and see a lot of other people who play and are "addicted" to online gaming. there are lots of posotives and negatives to gaming and im sure in the future will be used in classrooms around the world to help students. After all if children can focus, concentrate and sucseed like they do when playing these complex games, amagine what they could learn in the classroom. See you next week :)