"Ever since my child went on summer vacation, he has been addicted to playing games and can't control it at all." Recently, Ms. He, a parent in Nanjing, discovered that her child has been addicted to online games since the summer vacation. In this regard, many parents expressed great concern about this phenomenon. Recently, Tencent and other leading domestic game manufacturers have collectively released a summer game restriction calendar for minors. Underage users can only play games from 20:00 to 21:00 every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from July 1 to August 31. Log in to experience the game, and the total summer game time is 26 hours. Is the game’s anti-addiction system for minors reliable? The reporter visited.

Investigation: Minors are still present during the playtime period for non-minors

Judging from the official announcements issued by some leading domestic game manufacturers, minors can only play games for 26 hours during the two months of the summer vacation. AI machine learning and other technical means are used to identify suspected underage accounts. In response to the problem of fraudulent account use, we took the lead Face recognition verification is used for interception. Users who refuse or fail verification will be included in anti-addiction supervision. Some leading game manufacturers have enabled the "AI Patroller" function to identify suspected underage players through big data analysis of minors' gaming behavior, and conduct timely interception and control to detect and intervene in advance for the irrational consumption of underage players. Behavior.

The reporter randomly downloaded several popular games and found that minors can still be found during the playable time period for non-minors. How do these minors avoid detection by the game anti-addiction platform? Some underage players told reporters that they can ask their parents to "swipe their face" for authentication, or purchase an adult game account to operate. Even on some social platforms, some people claim that they can change minor accounts to adult accounts. Industry experts warn that such services carry the risk of fraud and minors should not try them.

A minor stole his parents’ bank card to recharge games

"From Star to King, it costs 300 yuan to play in two weeks." During the summer, some minors even started a game "playing" business. Nori (pseudonym), a middle school student, told reporters that after her summer vacation, she had nothing to do at home. Later, she discovered that she was "a little talented" in games, so she came up with the idea of ​​​​earning pocket money through game training. "There are also some game studios that recruit summer students." Part-time, sometimes the system detects abnormal game login."

There are even minors who are addicted to games and steal their parents’ bank card information to recharge games. Recently, a parent, Mr. Tu, discovered that his child had used his grandma’s identity information to log into a game, secretly remembered his grandma’s payment password when he was buying groceries, and successively paid more than a thousand yuan to the gaming platform to purchase game character “skins.” Subsequently, Mr. Tu appealed through the platform and successfully recovered the recharge amount.

Experts: Preventing Internet addiction requires more efforts from schools, society, and families

Minors' addiction to online games will have many adverse effects on them. Qian Hua, vice principal of Zhonghua Middle School, believes that excessive addiction to online games among teenagers during the summer will make them develop a strong dependence mentality. In particular, the adventurous excitement in online games, the ease and ease in making friends online, and the fresh temptations in unhealthy online content, etc., make teenagers gradually become addicted to the Internet, thus losing interest in their own life and study, lacking perseverance, declining self-control ability, and poor academic performance. Desolate.

"To prevent teenagers from being addicted to online games, we must rely on the comprehensive strength of schools, society, and families to do a good job in home-school community education." Qian Hua told reporters that family education is the first line of defense to control teenagers' Internet addiction. Parents should understand the growth patterns of teenagers, take the initiative to understand their children's psychological needs, pay attention to their children's digital care and companionship, learn to communicate effectively with their children, and guide their children to correctly respond to online risks.

Although students are not in school during the summer, schools can use the holidays to arrange some interesting activities to reduce students' dependence on the Internet. Qian Hua gave examples, such as the "Little Chef God" series of activities, which require students to learn a dish every week and take photos and upload them, aiming to enrich children's time at home; another example is the "Classic Reading" activity, which can guide students to read in major restaurants in the city. The library participates in classic reading check-in activities to draw spiritual strength and avoid being addicted to online games.

"At the same time, we should pay attention to the positive role of social forces in preventing minors' Internet addiction, and give full play to the advantages of community youth service agencies and other platforms. For example, strengthen the training of volunteer organizations or volunteer groups, organize various lively and interesting Publicity and guidance activities to help minors understand and use the Internet correctly," Qian Hua said.

Xinhua Daily·Intersection reporter Cheng Xiaolin

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