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A Pennsylvania lawyer in his 40s has been suspended from his profession for three years after he spectacularly failed to perform his duties. So goes the Disciplinary Board’s decision after Matthew Eshelman confessed that video game addiction was at fault. It seems Atty. Matthew Eshelman used to work for another firm, then left that job when his gaming undermined his work. Shortly after establishing his own practice, the video game addiction stuck, with disastrous results.
This is actually sad news and no doubt a moment of extreme personal crisis for the person involved. Hopefully he has the fortitude to find a balance in life. It’s also indicative of a worrying trend in an otherwise beautiful industry. There’s no other way you can describe videogames these days: they are beautiful. The problem is, unlike books or film or opera music, they tend to preoccupy the overstimulated modern-age workers that comprise our global consumer society.
It’s sad, really. You don’t hear of people getting fired from their jobs because of listening to too much classical music, right? If only video games can finally attain that plateau—becoming a worthwhile diversion that’s more the object of pleasure than a societal bogeyman that’s frowned upon.
Should this incident herald the inception of Gamers Anonymous (GA)?
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According to recent research by Ofcom, 37% of adults and 60% of teens admit to being ‘highly addicted’ to their smartphones, with users checking their smartphones on average, 34 times a day. Additionally, 51% of adults and 65% of teens use their smartphones while socializing with others, and 22% and 47% respectively, confess to answering their smartphones even while on the toilet.
So the International 'Moodoff Day’ is encouraging people around the world to avoid using smartphones for a few hours on February 26. The organization is urging adults and teenagers to spend from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. that day without using their smartphone. This events will celebrate each year on last Sunday of February.
if you feel you could benefit from a morning without smartphones and mobile devices and want to encourage others to follow suit, go to www.MoodOffDay.org and pledge your support. You can even post your personal experiences of smartphone addiction or upload funny images showing smartphone addicts in action at www.facebook.com/MoodOffDay .
Moodoff Day is aiming to raise awareness of smart phone addiction and to minimise the impact on relationships, work/life balance, reduce risk of injury in traffic and improve quality of life.
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