Negatives of Pokemon Go

My only thought is it's a sign of my age that the first time I heard about the new tech/game craze was on the news, and not through mates, lol !

 

I feel that someone is going to die because of Pokemon Go, and then everyone will either hate the game or slow down on playing it. Either that will happen, or the hype will go down and it will slow down in downloads.

 

Heard someone stumbled upon a dead body near a lake because of it, not quite sure about the credibility of the article however.

In my case, negatives would be I'm the type who is stuck inside because she's scared of the local fundamentalists.

 

I think those are potential problems, but I think we should give it a few months to see if they stick before passing judgment/being worried.


I did hear a terrible story from a friend about someone he was driving with almost crashing because he was playing it. Idiot...

 

I think pokemon go will reveal the idiots of the world. Those that want to play and drive, those that walk into traffic because they can't look up, those that wonder into clearly bad neighborhoods.

But the fact is, I've seen more good from it than I have bad. I mean half the people I know are actually outside for a change. My rather anti-social brother has made a few friends from this. In a time where people are being torn apart it is actually bringing a lot of people together who would normally not hang out with each out. It is designed to get the youth of the world out of doors and exploring the world, and help encourage them to interacts with others and learn about others.

 

I also think people will start hating it but not 'cause somebody may die from it (though I'm pretty sure that will happen too). I think that, like Frozen or Avatar (the one with the blue people), everybody's gonna go nuts over it and love it, then everybody's gonna go "well it wasn't that good", than everybody's gonna call it overrated, and then everybody's gonna hate it.

 

I completely agree with you OP.

 

wth is pokenom go and what makes it so dangerous?

 

I honestly think people are freaking out a bit right now, just because it's new.

A day after it comes out there are reports of people being lured into armed robberies and people getting into car accidents.

As for it affecting relationships, how is this any different from any other app or from smartphones in general? People were already staring at their phones ignoring the world around them, this is just another drop in the bucket.

 

If I ever got into a car accident, I will blame empty closets xD

 

Possibly will cause injury and accidents as well, including car accidents (we already have people who text and drive, what about this)? I LOVE Pokemon and I was excited to see this come out, but I have doubts about how intelligent people are when using it.

 

Really, only uniquely new issue Pokemon Go's gonna bring up is having to spend two months competing against my thirteen-year-old sister for new mons when she visits this summer. :lol:

 

I saw an article about a guy who lives in an old church and his house is a gym, so people are blocking his driveway in their cars, chilling all over his property and stuff. I think that's kind of lame, they should make some sort of process for someone to complain about a gym location for situations like these.

I think it'll slowly lose popularity and only a handful of people that are really into it will keep playing. I don't think it has the most depth so people's attention won't be held for super long. Kind of like Miitomo.

 

This is actually true. A teen in Wyoming found a dead body after he was trying to find some water type pokemon.

 

I'm still waiting for the day someone walks in front of a car while playing this.

Ha this also happened in my home town, a small Dutch town. A group of teens found an old lady's body in a pond.

Apparently there's something hidden in a hospital in Amsterdam, and people were all over the hospital, even in places where they were not supposed to be. Inside a hospital. Why don't they know boundaries.

 

you mean poor self-control, spacial awareness, and time management skills?

This isn't a game problem. it's a crappy discipline problem centered around a poorly raised generation with short attention spans.