TITLE
• Charles Alvin D. Quijano
• Grade 6 - Miguel Malvar
• The Risk of Online Games
• To give awareness on how online games is dangerous for the health of a kid
INTRODUCTION
• Children have been playing more and more online games in recent years. Online gaming is not best for
kids for a number of reasons, though.
• DEFINITION OF TERMS
Cyber - relating to or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual
reality.
Game - a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by
skill, strength, or
luck.
Online - available on or performed using the internet or other computer network.
Online Games - refer to games that are played over some form of computer network, most often the
Internet.
BODY
• Online gaming can refer to any type of game that someone can play through the Internet or over a
computer network. Most of the time, it refers to video games played over the Internet, where multiple
players are in different locations across the world.
• Playing games online surely is fun having socialize to other person but this have risk on it side. Many
cases of cyber bullying is circulating around. It is a bullying of a person online making fun of it that cause
of many mental problem and can lead to death. According to Cook(2022) "a survey of over 2,000
adolescents found that over one-third experienced bullying in mobile games."
• On the other online games give also a benefit for a one child. It can develop its decision making and
improve its creativity in helps to complete the task in a game. However online games risk is more than to
what you can benefit to it.
• In a 2021 systematic review and meta-analysis, the global prevalence of gaming disorder was found to be
3.05%. That means there can be as many as 60 million people (or more) suffering from gaming disorder.
CONCLUSION
• To conclude, online games refer to games in internet. Kids can interact to make social to other but it has
risk on the side to it. Better to be aware of this to prevent further harm that can happen.
REFERENCE
• Hayes, E. 2006. Playing it Safe: Avoiding Online Gaming Risks. USA: US-CERT.