What is the importance of video games?

What is the importance of video games?

Some people might think video games are bad and that it will rot your brain. But video games can help you with survival skills, creating new friends, learning new things, fighting skills and more! But it also can be bad too like being too addicted to the game, you can have sore red eyes by just looking at the screen for too long, bad posture, etc.

Video games are important because it can be a job for some people. For example pewdiepie known as Felix. He is one of the top gamers in the world, for his humorous “Let’s Play” videos on youtube. By playing video games on twitch and youtube and earn you a lot of money. People who make the games take months or even years.

Video games can help with making new friendships, by meeting new people online! Video games also help with social skills and confidence.

Video games give you a choice to be offline or online. Offline is where you aint using any internet and online is where you are using the internet and you can meet people. But online games can be hell, there could be some pedos, online daters, hackers, bad language etc. This means pedos can act as a different person, online daters can date you without knowing your real age, hackers can grab your IP address and find out where you live. 

Video games are also a great source of entertainment and learning. This helps with not being bored and learning something new everyday. Like survival games, they can help with memory, navigation skills, heath skills, etc.

In my opinion video games are very important, because they can do a lot to help you.

(By Stanley.) 

Why is it important to learn to swim?

Why is it important to learn to swim?

New Zealand is an island in the pacific ocean with 15,000 km of coastline and over 700 beaches. In 2017 there were 92 people who have died from drowning in NZ. It is important to swim because when you're out in the ocean with no swimming experiences, you don't have any confidence and you can’t find land, you're basically dead. But if you do have the confidence, you can swim, you can find land by swimming.

Swimming is actually a cool activity/sport to do! For example you can swim for competitions, you can swim for fun, you can swim for strength, etc. Swimming can also help with muscles and weight for example it's a good sport to get in shape. You don't know you could be the next best swimmer.

Swimming it's very easy to learn too! Children do it all the time. Some people can't learn how to swim because the swimming lessons might be too expensive, they might have Aquaphobia [a fear of swimming], etc.  (I have not finished, but ok.)