Mobile Gaming at its Max

By: Duncan Wang

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• According to a survey done by Lunden, 96% of Americans play mobile games at home.

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53% of American play mobile games in bed.

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• Studies shown that mobile radiation makes people to take longer to fall asleep, and lesser time in deep sleep.

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• However, research published in Epidemiology says that mobile phone causes much higher risk of getting eye cancer, but their studies still need confirmation.

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• A survey shows that 44% of people in U.S and U.K plays mobile games, and the number is still growing. In addition, this was in 2012, so the percentage definitely went up a lot.

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• 73% of Canadian citizen play mobile games in bathroom, and 62% in bed.

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You need to stop playing your mobile phones on the toilet, or else the possibility of getting hemorrhoid is very high.

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• After all the percentage above, do you still want to constantly play mobile games?

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• Do you really want to miss out all the real fun, and adventures that you can have?

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• And these?

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• 32% of people play to kill time, and 34% of people play because the games are fun, and some play to flirt, connect with friends.

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• Killing time and playing games because it’s fun, but do you really think sports, adventures, family time, hanging out with friends, and travel are really more boring than mobile games?

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• Or even less meaningful?

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More negative effects on mobile gaming are

• 1. Playing while driving.• 2. Wasted hours of time, and it can adds up to

a day, a week, or even a month. • 3. Sleep problems, due to waking up at night

to play mobile games, or just play mobile game throughout the night.

• 4. Spending money on the game.

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• People would play mobile games before their meals are up in a restaurant instead of chatting.

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• In 2012, there are already 100 million people in U.S who play mobile games, and it is growing 35% each year, which means that there are 35 million more people who started to play mobile games every year.

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• Mobile games stimulated the economics a lot, for example, the founder of the game Clash of Clans, made 892 million last year, you can see why mobile gaming helped the economics quite much.

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• As I’m trying to say all throughout my flipboard, try to find some other healthy activities instead of playing games on your smartphone.

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• Lastly, limiting yourself towards mobile gaming will allow you to discover more.

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• http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/14/2012-mobile-game-study/• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/phones-sleep-mobile-_n_26

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• https://www.flickr.com/• http://www.ehow.com/info_8260677_negative-effects-mobile-

games.html• http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/home-is-where-the-mobile-game-is-9

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• http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/12/mobile-game-developer-supercell-made-892m-last-year-oh-and-they-paid-345m-in-taxes/