“A Study on Impact of Online Gaming and Its Addiction among Youth with Special Reference to Kerala”

In this modern era, technology plays an important role in every walk of human life. People are using the latest technologies for information and entertainment which are providing wide rages of benefits to human community. For infotainment people are depending on social media and online gaming in advanced model. In this virtual world online gaming touches its highest level. Online game is a video game that is played with the help of internet or any other computer network available. Some people consider online gaming as a mode of entertainment. In this generation with the development of mobile industry and network industry has helped in the growth of online gaming industry. Online Gaming is also used as a tool to escape from stress in life. As everything has an opposite side online gaming also has. Due to excessive usage of online gaming people get addicted to it which will cause many health issues like vision problems, headache, and neck pain etc and also mental issues which lead to many gaming disorders. So our study is done to check whether there is any impact of online gaming and its addiction among youth in Kerala