Do online games whitewash people?

"People who play video games are less able to control impulsive aggressive behavior, reveals a new study " (The Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/10221432/People-who-play-video-games-are-less-able-to-control-impulsive-aggressive-behaviour-reveals-a-new-study..html). People are changing there is an evident change in people who play aggressive online games. "Teenagers who play violent video games over a number of years become more aggressive towards other people as a result, according to a new long-term study. Researchers said the study was the first to show a clear link between a sustained period of playing violent games and subsequent increases in hostile behaviour.
Girls who play violent computer games during their school years were found to be affected just as much as boys." (dailymail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214346/Violent-video-games-make-teens-aggressive-girls-affected-boys.html). It has been scientifically proven that playing outdoor games helps a person to be calm and peaceful and also physically fit. We all agree that playing online games all the time make a person secluded and that person ends up have no friends or someone close to him/her and this ends up making that person socially awkward who later find's out that he has trouble socializing.
As we can see today that a person's behavior is highly manipulated by the kind of games he play. We can assume a person playing highly violent games end up having violent and aggressive and violent behavior. ""Early last year, seventy French university students sat down in a room. A group of scientists told the students they would be participating in a study to measure the effects of video game brightness on visual perception, and that they would each be paid 10 euros a day for their efforts.
The students split up into two groups of 35, and each group was randomly assigned to play a violent or non-violent game 20 minutes a day for three days. The violent games: Condemned 2, Call of Duty 4, and The Club. The non-violent games: S3K Superbike, Dirt 2, and Pure.
After each gaming session, the students were asked to write an ending to one of a few randomized stories. In one of the stories, for example, a driver crashes into the main character's car, causing a bunch of damage, and then the main character gets out of his car and approaches the other driver. Students had to fill in what would happen next.
After each gaming session, the students were asked to write an ending to one of a few randomized stories.
Then, each student was told that they would compete in a computer game in which they had to respond to a visual cue faster than an opponent of the same gender. The loser, the students were told, would receive a heinous noise blast that sounded like a combination of fingernails scratching a chalkboard, dentist drills, and ambulance sirens. Each student could determine the intensity and duration of the noise that their opponent would have to suffer through.
The results of this experiment—conducted by Ohio State University professor Brad Bushman not to measure brightness, as they had told the students, but to examine the connection between violent video games and aggressive behavior—were conclusive, the researchers said. The people who played violent video games were more likely to write more aggressive stories and dish out higher, more unpleasant noise. Violent video games, Bushman and his colleagues concluded, have a direct causal effect on aggression.
In other words, playing Call of Duty makes you want to fight."" (http://kotaku.com/5976733/do-video-games-make-you-violent-an-in-depth-look-at-everything-we-know-today)

The above study proves my point that today a person's behaviour is not his/her own but manipulated by kind of games he play. They are being whitewashed by the games they are playing. They do what they do in the online games they play. many teenagers who play violent games like GTA (Grand Theft Auto) believe that if they rob or kill someone they might just get away it like they do in the games they play. According to me if we need to solve this problem then we need to put more emphasis on the outdoor activities as they create a peaceful state of mind and also parents should watch the kind of games a child is playing because it will be really better if this problem is checked at a young age.



Reference
-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/10221432/People-who-play-video-games-are-less-able-to-control-impulsive-aggressive-behaviour-reveals-a-new-study..html
-https://townipproject09.wikispaces.com/Video+Games+Affect+on+Americans
-http://kotaku.com/5976733/do-video-games-make-you-violent-an-in-depth-look-at-everything-we-know-today
-http://www.goodgamebro.com/category/shooters/battlefield/