Digital Story

Intro: For my digital story I am doing video game addiction. Kids who play video games are becoming more and more addicted. I have friends who will sit in their rooms for hours when new games come out and will be anti social. World of warcraft is known as an extremely addictive game. Reports have been done and its shown that they cause kids social, emotional, and physical problems. Things I would include: -kids buying the game and avoiding school -kids not leaving their rooms -effects of the game on weight -how it causes them to be anti social These games will continue to become more and more addictive. It is even resulting in lower self esteem for these participants. They put on weight which leads to them feeling bad about themselves. For my digital story id like to put together a cause and effect diagram from playing this with comics. In one of the comics I would have someone right before they started to play the game. I would let that one lead into another comic which would show someone after they've been playing the game for a while. This is after they've put on weight, avoided all social gatherings, and how they've gradually lost self esteem. This diagram would show kids what could happen if they begin to obsess over video games. On some occasions people have been so addicted they began to act as if they are in the game. Grand theft Auto 5 caused a friend of mine to speed on occasions because he had been so used to it in the game. Overall I think this could cause kids to rethink whether or not they are going to make the choice to get involved in this game.