In most of todays video games, there is an extreme amount of violence encountered in them. The violence has grown from very unrealistic shows to games where the violence is realistic, and give young children exposure to explicit things they should not be exposed with at that early age. This violent video games can influence the young children or teen agers in such way that they can change their perspective of life and make them take incorrect decisions they think are correct.
As seen in this article, the US supreme court has done an attempt to restrict sales of violent video games to minors, by imposing a rate: mature, teen and everyone. Children under 17 are unable to buy mature games unless accompanied by a parent.
Effect 2: media affects language development
Specially in children, media, specially social media, affects their language development since social media sites like for example face book and twitter introduces them to various abbreviations like for example "LOL" and TTYL" which they apply in real life while speaking and writing, regardless of the informality or formality of the speech or writing piece.
Effect 3: Media imposes fashion styles
Through media, various fashion styles have been created. Singers and artist post their music in internet or show them in television, and the audience is influenced by their style, ranging from movement to fashion. Now a days, some people in society have been influenced by a new fashion style called "hipster". You can clearly see that these artists have drastically affected society by making them utilize their strange, different, unusual fashion
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