Just because violent video games isn't problematic doesn't mean social media and/or lootboxes also isn't. The relative innocuousness of marijuana doesn't dismiss the dangers of tobacco, or alcohol.
This is the best study i know about digital media and adolescent wellbeing and they find an extremely small effect size (accounting for less than 0.4% of adolescent wellbeing).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562%20018%200506%201?mod=...
This doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned, especially if we are motivated to design better media culture. I can't stand Facebook.
No I don't think so.
I've played lots of first person shooters and it's harmless.
But social media causing damaging self worth worries, I slightly experience myself, sometimes. It's a real problem, in my eyes.
(Loot boxes, and computer gaming addiction, are real problems with the games though.)
I never saw such a game. -- The FPS games I've seen, I'd compare them more with looking at a ww2 movie.
"The last of us" -- that game maybe that one can cause, like you wrote, a bit desensitization. It's more realistic brutal violence in that game than what I saw in the games i played as a kid.
Any games come to your mind?
For sure I wouldn't want military or policemen to play such games, and not kids either