The writer of this article knows too many true stories about the bad effects of the addiction to the internet, crimes, and even deaths.
One of the writer's friends was a CTO. After he was axed from his company, he began to became addicted to the games on line, and he played almost 24 hours a day, with only the time to buy something and have a brief dinner. He played the games for a month, and one day, he was found died in front of the computer, a sudden death. Another story is from Korea, maybe you have known about it. The same story, a man called Lee left his company to play games, and after 50 hours, he was successful to reach the end of the game, however, when the game was over, so was he - sudden heart attack for playing too long in front of the computer.
Online games cause the indulgence of the persons who are addicted to playing games, and it has become a social issue that should not be overlooked. Some parents of the young people are sad to witness that their children go gradually from the track of normal life, and they neglect anything - their studies, their parents, their friends - but games, games and games again. Some have even embarked on the road of no return, committing crimes which they learn from the games: killing the others by violence. Online games are to blamed for such kind of violence, crimes, which must be the concern of the community as a whole.
In the game world, almost all of the problems can be solved by force. When the young people are accustomed to solve the problem this way, and they encountered conflicts in the real social life, they will easily find this most familiar solution. In their view, as it is repeated countless times in the games, they think that it does not act much different. A teenager snatched a policeman's gun, and after three successive shots, three police officers were killed by him. When he was arrested, the boy said, "Life is like a game, you could die at any time."
Also, there are pornography, scams, and many other things that could lead the young to go astray online, which can easily make them addicted to. There must be solutions to solve this kind of problems.
