ONLINE GAMES

Today, I read an article which named"physical interpersonal Relationships and social anxiety among online game players"(Lo, Wang, Fang, 2005). In this article, according to many experiments, experts have shown that people who are addictive on playing online games have less fullfilling interpersonal relationships than people who are nonplayer or only spend only a few time on it. Morover, those heavy players have higher levels of social anxiety than others who don't addictive on playing online games.According to research, authors express that a significant percentage of teenageers who are the heavy users of online games have many serious social problems, such as they waste too much time on playing online games instead of attending school or scholl-related activities, some teenageers imitate the violent or destructive behaviours from the games.many things can trigger people's social anxiety, such as losing job, losing house, losing friends.......some people think they can't solve these problems or they would rather to find another way than coping with problems, such us playing online games in order to aviod problems.In the online games, people can do what they want, they don't need to have responsibilities as in the real world. However, authors explain that many personal factors which players create and desire to reach lose the meaning in the online games, such us socioeconomic status, physcial attractiveness, education level, social class.In the future, researcher expect that they could more understanding the potential shifts in real -world interpersonal relationships and social anxiety with playing online games. Morover, they could find out the limit of playing online games which causes an increase in social anxiety.