Choi Ting Yiu, Kieran
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The reading “We Play: The Allure of Social
Games, Synthetic Worlds, and Second Lives.” pointed out that young people fall
into online rather than watching television, as Nielsen said that “missing
young men story”. Due to online games, young can open up their minds and meet more
new people from other countries, they can learn different language by playing
different kind of online games. May be their first boy / girlfriend was found
by playing the games. Yes, most of the young nowadays are not quite normal to
watch television which sit in front of the TV with their family. It is not say
that they do not watching TV, but they will watch through online or while they
were doing other things.
We all knew that the trend has been change,
we knew, and the TV producers also knew. In the reading, Nielsen found out a
lot of data to show us that young people prefer playing online games instead of
watching TV, some of them will spend at least half of hours in week on playing
online games, they usually will pay the real money inside the games like
myself. A game interviewer, Lee, tell us in the reading that he felt playing
games can let him have a mind that he is accomplishing a goal, but sitting and watching
TV is wasting time.
Nowadays, why young people choose to play
online games instead of watching TV? Watching TV is wasting time? Yes, but not
all. Most of the young people want to change the world in the reality life, their
living standard, their dress code, their educational system etc., but they can’t. Different
culture, rule, and policy are against them. But online games are different, you can be
the king inside the games, you can create a fantasy life through the games, you
can choose different sex, setting different body shape, increase your height
inside the games, just like what the interviewer in the reading said, “I feel
like I’m accomplishing a goal.” What you can’t do in the society, what you can
do in the games.
How about TV, what they show through the
television, mostly cannot be real. You can’t really fly yourself, so you cannot
be superman; you can’t really jump up from the ground to the top of building,
so you cannot not be the hero; you are not Michael Tse, so you cannot just
using one hand to climb a mountain and use mobile phone. What you watched in TV, what you just can
imagine inside your mind.
This is what the reading want us to
reflect ourselves, especially those TV producers, mainly focus on playing online games,
you can watch TV at the same time, but opposite, and you can’t.
As a young man, our mind is very simple, to
be a creator in the games, or to be a visionary in your mind. The answer should
be the first chose.
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