Gambling addiction becomes more popular with young people over time - page 11.

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It's definitely becoming more common, but not just in younger people.

More and more people are being exposed to the internet, which in turn exposes them to the plethora of gambling sites available.

I suspect that it's having an even bigger effect on adults over 40 who use the computer, I've seen some completely gullible ones in my time.

Quote from: worldofcoins on October 10, 2018, 03:07:49 PM

I beg to disagree with this thread's title. There does not seem to be any conclusive evidence that younger people take up the gabling addiction more than they did in the past. No evidence whatsoever.

I would say that there would be a clear correlation between time spent online and risk of gambling addiction, since younger people tend to spend more time online than the older generation you are probably more likely to see it in the young. That doesn't mean that being young is the risk factor, as correlation doesn't equal causation.

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Quote from: bitcoinmaster44 on October 09, 2018, 10:49:02 PM

I don't agree. I always see more elderly. people in casinos.

Actually, if we are talking about Casinos and those that are licensed and regulated, you really would not see anyone less than 18 years in a casino, but for an online gambling and most especially cryptocurrency gambling, it permits every Tom, Dick and Harry to be a part of it irrespective of your age.

In this vein, gambling addiction is gradually increasing over time among the younger generations as well. But we will actually be bias to say it is only popular among young generations but it is something that actually cuts across as long as you are a gambler with a wrong mindset, whether you are 16 or 80 years of age. For instance, a friend’s grandpa died an addict even at the age of 92, so it can be that bad.

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I beg to disagree with this thread's title. There does not seem to be any conclusive evidence that younger people take up the gabling addiction more than they did in the past. No evidence whatsoever.

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Quote from: gilangIDR on October 09, 2018, 06:15:58 PM

Currently gambling games are so highly developed and very easy to access. This makes it easier for anyone to access gambling games. As a result, more and more young people are experiencing addiction and this is very difficult to avoid. Actually, it all depends on yourself, that is when there is an attitude of rejection of the gambling game, we will not be easily affected to experience addiction.

I would say actually that the ease of access is actually something that is making things the way they are in the gambling space when making reference to young people. There are a lot of things to life that I believe a young fellow should always realize first most especially before starting to make some decisions when it comes to trying to gamble. Like someone said though, most times it is not really about the age as we have seen old people even not being able to get hold of them-selves, and it is usually the mentality that bring into gambling and the fact that you are smart enough to limit yourself that counts.

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I don't agree. I always see more elderly. people in casinos.

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If we really consider young peoples, I think that they are the most lazy peoples in terms of earning a living and would always go for some shortcuts. We all know that none other than gambling can provide such shortcuts to earn a better living and hence young peoples go for it i guess. It should not actually be that addicted by them as gambling addiction is the worst one and also can create a lot of financial problems ahead.

Gamblig should be treated as a secondary income rather than treating it as a primary source of income. If treated secondary source of income than gambling can give us some unexpected good incomes out.

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Currently gambling games are so highly developed and very easy to access. This makes it easier for anyone to access gambling games. As a result, more and more young people are experiencing addiction and this is very difficult to avoid. Actually, it all depends on yourself, that is when there is an attitude of rejection of the gambling game, we will not be easily affected to experience addiction.

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Quote from: Indamuck on October 09, 2018, 11:58:09 AM

I strongly believe that a lot of these new mobile games are heavily influencing kids to gamble. Their minds get very stimulated when they win virtual items like points, achievements, or gems. This isn't necessarily a bad thing though, as long we we teach them to gamble responsibly and treat it as a side hobby.

This is actually true. There are several articles that I have read that links video games/mobile gaming to gambling. They said that it unlocks the world of gambling for young minds.
I can testify that the same feeling when spending money on games is the same as when I am spending my money on gambling. It gives me a sense of accomplishment to win in gambling as the same way as when I am ranking up on my games. It's toxic and addicting when left unmonitored.

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I strongly believe that a lot of these new mobile games are heavily influencing kids to gamble. Their minds get very stimulated when they win virtual items like points, achievements, or gems. This isn't necessarily a bad thing though, as long we we teach them to gamble responsibly and treat it as a side hobby.

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Quote from: greeklogos on October 06, 2018, 08:55:52 AM

I see it as a bad effort to take an article about gambling addiction and put it here with clear asking for merits for that. I think that's the reason why nobody gives it to you.
Coming back to the main point of the thread I will tell that all kind of addictions have place to be the most at young generation. Everything is due to such period of search and hormones which move to new thing trying and addictions.

The addiction happens in gambling is because of the money involvement part comes in. Just consider if their was no money involved but some games or some sort of basic gifts would have given will the craze remains same? It will fall drastically and thus this is where the human behavior comes into picture.

I think gambling addiction is now popular particularly on the part of the millenials because they are considered the explorers.Curiosity won't stop them until they experienced it on their own.And since money is what at stake in gambling,they will surely grab for it without noticing that they are starting to be addicted in gambling.And before they knew it,they have lose already big amount of money and may even lead to a more desctruction of life.

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Quote from: Fuhre on September 24, 2018, 02:22:15 PM

No one can be blamed in today's gambling progress, it is true that gambling addiction is very much experienced by young people now they play as they please without thinking of anything beyond that, the environment greatly influences people's thinking, gambling will be very good if they use it with well and if not it will have a negative impact on a child's life easily, depending on how they work.

The reason is online gambling because young people play gambling from their bedrooms and their elders don’t know about this. They cannot stop them from gambling. Therefore I will blame online gambling for this. Young people who care for their parents will never visit physical casinos because if their parents do not allow them, they will never gamble in casinos.

I don’t understand how one can gamble for well as you mentioned here, besides I think that gambling can never be for good. When something is not accepted by the world how it can be used for well. It is not all about the mentality. It is because of the bad environment they have everywhere in their lives. Young people are destroying their lives in such bad things.

Yeah this is because the environment that supports them to gamble, every young person already has their own gadgets and laptops, they easily access the internet and gambling is very easy to use on the internet? so no wonder if they can easily access it, that is the main problem, easy access to gambling sites online

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Quote from: greeklogos on October 06, 2018, 08:55:52 AM

I see it as a bad effort to take an article about gambling addiction and put it here with clear asking for merits for that. I think that's the reason why nobody gives it to you.
Coming back to the main point of the thread I will tell that all kind of addictions have place to be the most at young generation. Everything is due to such period of search and hormones which move to new thing trying and addictions.

The addiction happens in gambling is because of the money involvement part comes in. Just consider if their was no money involved but some games or some sort of basic gifts would have given will the craze remains same? It will fall drastically and thus this is where the human behavior comes into picture.

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Its pretty much common sense that young people are more prone to getting addicted to gambling and such.

Its not only gambling. The younger a person is the less life experience they have. Its not only in gambling.

Young people usually get into huge debt, and not because they don't make alot of money but because they don't realize how interest and debt can build up over time.

Its also that they are more prone to developing greed and fear, and hence why many of them go bust due to strategies such as martingale.

I don't think its due to the internet being more geared towards a younger generation like the above poster suggests. Many older people use the internet now and usually the gambling addiction happens offline like at a casino or at a lottery desk.

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Quote from: izanagi narukami on October 03, 2018, 03:54:17 AM

It's normal thing especially when teenager still have fresh spirit but the disadvantage is they still can't manage with rationally or we can say that they are based on emotion.
For me , it's very dangerous and will lead into serious manner.
Of course we can prevent that happen by give them a notice about the risk of gambling so environment and religion become the main aspect !

I think we should ether put our respective governments on their feet so that they honk about the youth and provide hope for their future so that they wouldn't see gambling a the alternative for hope else we re doomed a people. How many of the youth today will even have the time to be talked into a religion or let alone practice it ? In that case they will not respect or trust the religious leaders enough to abstain from gambling.

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I see it as a bad effort to take an article about gambling addiction and put it here with clear asking for merits for that. I think that's the reason why nobody gives it to you.
Coming back to the main point of the thread I will tell that all kind of addictions have place to be the most at young generation. Everything is due to such period of search and hormones which move to new thing trying and addictions.

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Quote from: Mespirst on October 06, 2018, 04:57:45 AM

The reason that young people are going towards gambling is online gambling because they want big money for their future dreams and in the greed of winning more and more money they lose all their money. Nobody can stop them because they can gamble from their bedrooms. Their parents even don’t know about their gambling addiction.

I know that young people these days are so intelligent and very matured than the past individuals but I don't think this is the reason why these young'uns are very popular or early immersed on gambling.

Internet is the reason. Internet these days are very popular to young'uns because internet are open to any people that can access it. With these young'uns freely exploring the internet, it will be a normal thing for them.

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Quote from: Patatas on September 29, 2018, 07:02:12 AM

The shady businesses on the streets guarantee a profit. If one sells drugs on the street, he's guaranteed to make money. The case is not the same with gambling. You may or may not.

That is absolutely not true. People getting killed or injured by rival gangs while trying to sell drugs on the streets is a common thing. Your profit is not guaranteed at all. Where did you get that info?

We should be very careful in choosing words when speaking about such serious matters. Just imagine if young people were reading your lines, what conclusions they could draw from them?

He probably got it from TV series or just from the general idea that doing something illegal will give you money. I think it should be clarified that doing something like this will indeed give you money but only for a short time. The problem arises when you want to quit. Syndicates don't let you quit the game. Either you stay or they kill you so you won't expose them at some point. It's really risky to do. In addition, if you're in bad need of money for yourself or for your family, you're not going to risk going to jail because that will result to you not being able to do anything to help your family. There's still a lot of things that you can do since a lot of people don't want to do certain things.

In my country, the jail time for drug users, and sellers is a lifetime. Once you're caught, you're better off dead. You're never getting out.

The reason that young people are going towards gambling is online gambling because they want big money for their future dreams and in the greed of winning more and more money they lose all their money. Nobody can stop them because they can gamble from their bedrooms. Their parents even don’t know about their gambling addiction.

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Yesterday, my friend who is younger than me came to my home and talked about many things. He said that one day he found about bitcoin gambling site and he finds that how it could easy to play the game without using any money and only use the coin which he can get by free. And he starts to play with limit free coin and still, he is curious about this, and I explain more about the bitcoin gambling, and I tell him to not playing bitcoin gambling too often because he cannot make any money. I hope that he listens to my advice and stay away from the gambling site.

From this, I think as long as that person can access the internet with easily, soon, he will find about gambling site, and he will try to play and if he cannot control his emotion then soon or later, he will get addicting in the gambling game. I am too worry about this because if that person decides to continue to play, then he will lose much money.

If someone gambling for earning then they should stop doing this but your friend looks like not playing for money even if he do he is just doing from the money from faucets or free bonus which may not affect him at any cost but still time limit also important to stay away from gambling addiction.

I hope so because I've always reminded him to not playing gambling in every day and I continuously monitor what he did in a day, and I hope I can always tell and give a suggestion to him. I don't want to see my friend to become an addicting person in gambling because he is one of my closest friends and we are like a brother. But someday, I will advise him to stop from gambling forever, so he doesn't have to play gambling in his free time.

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Quote from: Sukut on October 04, 2018, 11:19:19 AM

It could be related to accessibility of online gambling, they can gamble wherever/whenever they want and also young people's money generally come from their parents, they don't know the value of money.

This plus the fact that online gambling does not require much hassle, it's easier for young people to get involved with it. I actually know a lot of people who is under 18 that gamble using cryptocurrencies in games like dice sites. They view it as a source of income and this is the reason why they keep on coming back to play more. You are right when you said that most young people do not know the value of money. It is also accurate to say that when they gamble, they do not realize the risk involved in it.

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I don't agree with those saying that younger people are more easily addicted to gambling. All the gambling addicts I have known are old ladies. They like to gamble with their husband's money by mostly playing slot machines and blackjack.

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