Friday, July 22, 2016

Pokemon GO's benefits

So as we all know, Pokemon GO has come out a few weeks ago and I'm pretty sure more than half of us actually downloaded the game. As we know, it is a very fun game and we all go out everywhere. Now, I have heard of multiple incidents already about accidents and deaths from this game, but I'm not talking about that today,. Why not keep this blog spot positive and not negative? Pokemon GO is encouraging kids to go out and run around like the goofballs they are. This helps with the overweight and obesity issues across the world. People will also become more social as they meet while biking or walking around. Everyone will be friends with one another and there will be a sense of peace among society. So, I hatched two eggs and got Magikarps. What did you guys get and what do you guys think about Pokemon GO? Is it more beneficial to us or would it destroy us?
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  1. UnknownJuly 22, 2016 at 12:32 PM

    I think it is beneficial for many people worldwide as it is getting people to go outside and ya know, catch em all. But I also think that maybe it would be nice for people to just decide to go outside not to play this game, but to go out for themselves. A game should not force someone to go out for excercise and what not. So yes in a way Pokemon Go is beneficial, but it is not a permanent solution to our problems of obesity and socializing.

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  2. UnknownJuly 22, 2016 at 4:14 PM

    I think the game is pretty clever because they designed the game so we would have to actually go out to catch Pokémons. It gives us a reason to go outside, even if it's just for thirty minutes. I heard someone make a joke about how the game got kids to go outside and be active faster than Michelle Obama could. However, what's going to happen when people get bored of the game and decide that walking a couple miles is not worth hatching an egg or catching then all, which you can also do while riding in a car. Although it is a fun game to play, especially with friends, it wouldn't necessarily destroy us but in the long run I don't think this is the solution to obesity or just getting people active in general because what about kids who aren't allowed to walk around. They'd just be playing while the car is moving and where's the benefit in that?

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  3. UnknownJuly 22, 2016 at 5:08 PM

    I completely agree with Alyssa. The game is good and helps people get outside but what's the point if you're still on your phone? Of course people will always be on their phone at some point during the day but it seems like a little too much with Pokémon GO. Kids should go outside to play with their friends, not walking around with their face practically attached to their screens. It seems to be a so-so situation for socializing as well because there are some people who go out and find people who are also playing the game but then there's the people who are playing to avoid everyone.

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  4. AFletcherJuly 23, 2016 at 12:30 PM

    You cannot just ignore aspects of the argument that you consider to be negative, even in the name of peace and harmony. Try to stop framing conversations as PRO/CON, FOR/AGAINST...If you think about it, this binary is how computers operate, switches on or off, zeroes and ones...our lives are far more complex than this, so Pokemon GO might encourage people to interact, get out, run around and be silly, and it has been at the center of some pretty horrific and fatal accidents.

    So it's both, just like sunshine -- nobody needs to explain the positive benefits of sunshine, yet sunshine is also the cause of many fatal skin cancers. We wouldn't run around and ask, "So, are you for the sun, or against it?"

    I do think you girls have a point: who needs a device to go outside and run around? Pokemon GO is a pretty fun game, but goofballs have been running around outside wrecking havoc and pretending all kinds of stuff since Day One.

    Here's the issue: creativity among children is on the decline.

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    1. UnknownJuly 27, 2016 at 4:57 PM

      It does not seem like creativity is the right word for this instance. A decline in creativity would imply a decline in imagination which certainly is not the main reason why people go Pokemon hunting.
      A better word would be motivation. People need extra motivation to go have fun outside when amusements such as TV, video games, the Internet, and social media fulfill that purpose exceptionally. The issue is that Pokemon Go is a better motivation to get people active and outside than our own health or casual interest has been.

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  5. AFletcherJuly 25, 2016 at 7:08 AM

    Rhianna says no.
    http://jezebel.com/rihanna-does-not-want-concertgoers-catching-any-pokemon-1784250895?

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  6. UnknownJuly 26, 2016 at 10:42 AM

    I have to agree with Ms. Fletcher, goofballs have been running around since day one. If anything Pokemon Go gives just gives those goofballs a legitimate reason for them to run around now. Also on a side note, anyone know where to find a Dratini?

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  7. UnknownJuly 26, 2016 at 3:38 PM

    I do not agree with your phrase “sense of peace among society” as I notice on the social media app 9gag, the three teams you can choose from are being very competitive and hateful towards each other. For example both Team Mystic and Valor view themselves as superior, while they view Team Instinct as dumb and weak. Also Owen there was a Dratini at Simms Park two days ago, just go look around that area as I seen it there for a while.

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