Topic:
Television Addiction

1.0 Introduction
Addiction is a characteristic of spending large amount of time on a subject and using it more regularly that lead to out of control. It can be know as habit to involve or occupied on subject. Once it stared and can’t stop doing it. Television is a medium for telecommunication on most household, business as well as for education purpose. It is a device shaped like a black box which receives electrical signals of moving images and sound. The word “television” is derived from Greek tele: far and Latin visio; sight. Television addiction is a person who experiences an uncontrollable continues watching for long period of time.

2.0 Background
People spend too much time watching television for some simple reasons, that is either for entertainment or killing free time. It’s relaxing and pleasant distraction from real life and is a great stress reliever or help to forget whatever people face. Watching TV is a difficult habit to break; like a drug. Human brain doesn’t require much thinking or use of imagination on television, if compared to outdoor activities such as football, it require skill and thinking.

Computer games, internet games, psp, and others games had become a daily life style on most of the students of all age. Game is now a major source of fun and entertainment for most of the people. Students played games are for relaxation in order to release neither stress nor spending their free time on it. Once playing games is out of control, students tense to spend most of their time on games and has displaced friend, family and even outdoor activities.

Students who are addicted to games will keep themselves in darkened room, conquering new worlds, killing monsters, and showing off their games skill. Some students were influence by their friends or love ones to play games. Gamers will begin to adapt a habit of not going to bath for days or without eating proper meal. Student’s EQ getting low and their life going to ruin. These behaviors bother a lot of people.

For examples:
“For the first week, I didn’t go to sleep”, said student A
“I dropped out of school for a semester and was feeling really low. My parents told me that if I continued to play games, I’d become a garbage man. It was totally insulting”, said student B.

The game addiction symptoms including falling behind in school and lack concentration not only on work, but in everything they work on it. Facing anger, low self-esteem, ignorance, depression and feeling low most of the time.

Symptoms:
- Headaches
- Lost control on computer or any type of games usage.
- Lying about game usage.
- Become obsesses when not plating games.
- Irregular sleep
- Dry eyes
- Failure on personal hygiene
- Falling asleep in class
- Most of the time spend on games
- Not Keeping up with assignments

Defining Game Addiction
Time spend on playing games reaches a limit that begin to harm or give effect on our life. The games had replaced relationship, friends and family. The addicted person feel good when comes interact with games, when away from games it will cause moodiness.
Why addicted to games?
Have fun with games can be very challenging. Games give fun to people of all ages. While people doing other thing like working, their mind was thinking about games while they are busy with their own things. They will choose to be at home playing games than out door activities.

People become addictive to games because they are likely to be challenge. They like to showing off their skill and always wanted to be the best at what they are playing. Games give them the feeling of creating people own world. To escape from real world and facing reality, games is only the choice for them and it’s good for people to escape time.