What could be more harmless than a game? Nothing. All a player has to do is turn the game on, take a seat and just as simple as that, game on! There is nothing that is technically wrong with playing a game. It is even educational and is more than capable of working as food for thought for people with a rather hyperactive imagination unless they are playing a game that deals with thieving, stealing cars and murdering people for basically no reason at all. In that case, games can prove to be quite harmful if the player takes it too literally. Unless the game you are talking about is Pokémon Go, a game that changed the gaming world, forever.
The Aftermath
What Pokémon Go essentially did has they used the player’s current GPS location and show them Pokémon that they were supposed to ‘catch’, the player was required to actually move around to change their GPS location to catch a new Pokémon. This meant that even if the player tried to take a seat and play it, they will not be able to unless that seat had wheels underneath it to move around or they are walking around the block.
Now, they inventive players invented a hack for this one as well. They thought that all they had to do was move around in order to catch their Pokémon. Moving around didn’t mean that they had to be on their feet, they could simply ride in a car or take a bus and they’d technically be moving around, changing their GPS location and thus they could catch all the Pokémons that they wanted. But, eventually, the players go too addicted to the game to even think straight. They started playing it while driving the car, they even played it while walking down a busy road. This resulted in a ton of cases of people driving off. That is just to name a few, here are more you will have a rather hard time believing.
The Bottom Line
In cases such as these, Pokémon Go might be a culprit, but it is not alone. A parent cannot control every aspect of a child’s life, but technology is something they could control. Even if it is just a game, there are times when a parent has to be careful with letting their kids play with them. Sometimes it is the content for the game that is bad but at with Pokémon go, the problem lies within the addiction. Thus, as a parent, the only way to combat tech is through tech. You have to monitor your child and keep in check the amount of time they have been putting in the game, especially when they shouldn’t. At times like these, physical monitoring just does not cut it, it has to be done through parental monitoring apps that can tell you how to monitor your child’s app use and even how to control it.
Author:
Addison write on social media privacies for children and stop against cyberbullying crimes. he is a digital parenting blogger on TheOneSpy Blog. Follow her on twitter @addisonalbert55
What Pokémon Go essentially did has they used the player’s current GPS location and show them Pokémon that they were supposed to ‘catch’, the player was required to actually move around to change their GPS location to catch a new Pokémon. This meant that even if the player tried to take a seat and play it, they will not be able to unless that seat had wheels underneath it to move around or they are walking around the block.
Now, they inventive players invented a hack for this one as well. They thought that all they had to do was move around in order to catch their Pokémon. Moving around didn’t mean that they had to be on their feet, they could simply ride in a car or take a bus and they’d technically be moving around, changing their GPS location and thus they could catch all the Pokémons that they wanted. But, eventually, the players go too addicted to the game to even think straight. They started playing it while driving the car, they even played it while walking down a busy road. This resulted in a ton of cases of people driving off. That is just to name a few, here are more you will have a rather hard time believing.
- In Alabama, a player got robbed at gunpoint while he was too engrossed in catching his Pokémon than pay attention to his own well-being.
- A couple in Arizona was arrested and sentenced to jail on the charges of child neglect when they left their 2-year-old baby girl at home in order to drive around the block and catch Pokémon.
- Two men were rescued by firefighters after they had fallen off 90 feet high cliff as they were too busy playing Pokémon Go to pay attention to their surroundings and where they were going.
- A man in California was too distracted by the game he was playing around midnight in a park that he did not notice a couple of people getting too close to him until they had succeeded in stabbing him.
- Teens from California were also robbed at gunpoint near the Willows City pool in the early hours of the morning while they were too busy playing Pokémon Go.
- Since it seems that California happens to be the place where most of this incident occur, it looks like people there are very much willing to slash others who they suspect are recording their video. A player in San Jose was slashed with a razor by two people while he was so busy playing Pokémon Go, that they though he was recording them.
- A baseball player was shot and killed in San Francisco while he was too engrossed in catching Pokémon than pay any attention to his surroundings.
- After a large number of robberies taking place at Berkeley, police requested the players to conceal their phones while playing Pokémon Go.
In cases such as these, Pokémon Go might be a culprit, but it is not alone. A parent cannot control every aspect of a child’s life, but technology is something they could control. Even if it is just a game, there are times when a parent has to be careful with letting their kids play with them. Sometimes it is the content for the game that is bad but at with Pokémon go, the problem lies within the addiction. Thus, as a parent, the only way to combat tech is through tech. You have to monitor your child and keep in check the amount of time they have been putting in the game, especially when they shouldn’t. At times like these, physical monitoring just does not cut it, it has to be done through parental monitoring apps that can tell you how to monitor your child’s app use and even how to control it.
Author:
Addison write on social media privacies for children and stop against cyberbullying crimes. he is a digital parenting blogger on TheOneSpy Blog. Follow her on twitter @addisonalbert55
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