An online game has led to a most unnatural digital revolution across the continents. Millions are stuck in the new avatars of the virtual world. Digital games lend entertainment and teach skills; in Kashmir, it has assumed its own tormenting dimension: scary addiction to online games.
As the younger generations continue to delve into the fold of this online gaming craze, it becomes imperative to bring attention to its adverse effects and search for remedies.
Addiction to online games poses one of the most massively prevailing traps to the psyche. Very often, owing to excessive gaming, the youth in the valley suffer stress, anxiety, and depressive disorders.
The larger the competition, the more the instant gratification, which drives the players insane, keeping addicted. Whereas, in Kashmir has alienated society both socially and emotionally only furthers the addiction in the users.
The negative effect of online gaming would also be felt on academic performance. Most students from the state of Kashmir devote a substantial part of their time playing online games over the net and do so at the cost of studies and a downward push on their educational graph.
Parents unaware of these URL modes of interface due to which youngsters stack high debts while procuring virtual items. The silent and ever-growing crisis needs attention; it’s ignored as of now.
At the macro level, both the government and local authorities should tackle the problem of ease of access to online games, especially when the line drawn between in-game purchases, gambling is very blurred. Stiff regulation is needed to ensure that such plat forms do not take undue advantage of vulnerable sections of society and especially young people.
Online gaming is entertaining and could have an alarming effect if one becomes addicted to it in Kashmir. Internet gaming addiction goes further to interfere with so many aspects of an individual’s mind structures, achievement in school, economic situation, and health as a whole.
Society, parents, schools, and governments will have to cooperate and work together to minimize the impact of technology on such lives, so that technology sustains growth and development instead of undermining it.
