Topic: Have you ever introduced an elder gambler to online betting? - page 9. (Read 1552 times)
A person who has been going to physical casinos will never like online casinos. They go there for entertainment and not for only gambling. I understand why your grandmother did not like online slots as it doesn't give her the satisfaction. At that age, it is not that easy to understand how to access an online casino. If you do try to explain to her she would get confused that is why let her do what she wants to. By the way, I have never introduced any senior or elder to online gambling
I haven't for the life of me since there's not a lot of old people that I talk with and I don't go out much and my grandparents are all dead except for one so there's no way that I would be able to do that and I feel like there's not a lot of boomers or silent generation babies are going to be able to keep up with technology no matter how much we try, some of their beliefs on how things work are just not that compatible with our current technology that's why it's probably rare to see an elder gambler to consider online betting, they're just like most of us, they don't mess with things that they don't know how to use or how it works so my best bet is to leave them alone to their own devices, for them gambling is the same anyway and they would probably need that physical exertion to go to a physical gambling houses and casino so why limit them or even make them more impaired?
I don't have any interaction with an elder to introduce him/her to online gambling. But I understand your grandmother because they like the old style and I agree with her that interaction with physical slots and having some other gamblers beside you is still different.
Also, these type of gamblers have been used to the environment that they've been with gambling and it may not be new to them about gambling online and that's why they prefer to do it physically.
Maybe, sometime in the future that her mind will change and will start to like it because she's old already and can't go to places and it's easier to gamble online.
Also, these type of gamblers have been used to the environment that they've been with gambling and it may not be new to them about gambling online and that's why they prefer to do it physically.
Maybe, sometime in the future that her mind will change and will start to like it because she's old already and can't go to places and it's easier to gamble online.
The online gambling have made so much gambler to become addicted the more your grandmother get familiar with the only gambling the more she becomes addicted, or draw her self closer to gamble.
Online games are better than online games for the older gamblers, when they lose they know there way home, by the time they starts getting familiar with online gamble whenever they lose they will fund another money then bet more, when hey do this repeatedly, that's what makes them get addicted.
Online games are better than online games for the older gamblers, when they lose they know there way home, by the time they starts getting familiar with online gamble whenever they lose they will fund another money then bet more, when hey do this repeatedly, that's what makes them get addicted.
As you can see, it wasn't only about gambling, but also about interacting with other people inside a real gambling environment, besides the technological experience not being so rewardable when compared to playing at solid, palpable physical machines.
Exactly what the older generation care about mostly as to why they prefer physical gambling centres to online gambling platforms. With the interactions, socialization and all the fun views around the environment that they get from using physical gambling centres it will be very difficult to see older people chose online to physical gambling. With their age life is already looking bored for them and that's why whatever brings them closer to new acquaintance they won't easily replace it with anything different from it no matter how seamless with ease it could be.Online gambling are mainly made for the younger generation and that's why you see the gambling companies spending so much money in beautifying the interface of their sites and platforms to make it look attractive because they know that the young generation are easily attracted to flashy fanciful things but this is not same with the older people as their taste differs alot naturally. It is said that the more older you become the more certain things stop getting appealing to your interest.
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And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
Oh yes and the my girlfriend sometimes blames me for this.
The family of my girlfriend lives in a province-like city. Technically, it's a province but with city-like structures due to the modernizations that were implemented. Naturally, the physical casinos in her city were far- it will take roughly 1-2 hours for a person to reach the nearest casino.
Fast forward, the grandmother of my girlfriend loves to gamble. During her free time, he would use her pension funds and allocate it to fund her gambling addiction. From time-to-time, her grandmother would win money and would treat everyone. But there were also some times where she would lose and ask money from my girlfriend.
One day, I went to their place and showed some videos online where you can download an application on your phone and gamble online. Long story short, I convinced her grandmother to gamble online using our famous local payment application (GCash). At the end, it is more convenient for her to gamble online but this addiction has became notoriously rampant in the past few weeks since I introduced it to her.
So I opened a slots website on the laptop and told her to click the touchpad over the roll button, indicated by the arrow on the screen, to start betting. She did it for a while and had some fun when winnings were hit. In the end, I asked her what she thought about the experience and if she would replace the habit of going to physical casino by the virtual one, but she replied that it was too complicated for her to play online, and that she likes the contact with a physical environment where there are physical machines and other people to talk, so she could leave the boredom of staying alone at home to see traffic and flux of people outside the doors.
As you can see, it wasn't only about gambling, but also about interacting with other people inside a real gambling environment, besides the technological experience not being so rewardable when compared to playing at solid, palpable physical machines.
Yes this is a clear difference between the baby boomers and the gen-z's. While the baby boomers are used to being out doors, interacting with other real humans, smelling the flowers, and feeling the wind on their face. They are in my estimation, the analog generation. In contrast to the gen-z's who do not like interacting with real people. Why do you think we have the virtual environments and all. As you can see, it wasn't only about gambling, but also about interacting with other people inside a real gambling environment, besides the technological experience not being so rewardable when compared to playing at solid, palpable physical machines.
I stand with your grandma on this and maybe when I get old and still gamble, I would most likely switch totally to a physical casino over the online casinos.
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And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
No. I haven't. In my culture, I don't think we can do that. It is usually the other way around.
I haven't introduced any elder to play an online casino. But for me, I would really recommend them to virtual gaming, but we should still consider and respect individual preferences that provides their gambling experiences enjoyment and fulfillment base on their interests and comfort level.
I think I have shown my parents online casinos once. I think they were watching something on the internet and casinos ad popped up. They have asked what this ad is about and why offer bet refund. I quickly explained without calling for an action. That is pretty much it. They did not show much interest to placing bets, getting more money and etc. The fact of access to gambling from any place in world did not make much excitement. They just told that “now everything is in the internet” and that is it.
Each person may be different when they are introduced to online gambling, some accept it and immediately use it because they think that it is easier, faster, and can be accessed anywhere. But there are also those who reject it after they are introduced to it, their reason is that it doesn't offer real games like in offline casinos and they don't get that offline casino vibe when they gamble online. So maybe it depends on the person whether they can accept online gambling or not, but from what I see, most generation X or boomers are more inclined to choose to gamble at offline casinos compared to online casinos.
I've never done anything to an older person. because in my country gambling has a connotation of being considered a bad person. so talking about me as a gambler, I've never invited anyone else to gamble, let alone an older person, of course never. although there are many gamblers in my area, gambling in my area in my country is not legalized, so if people gamble offline, they can definitely be caught by the police.
The fact is that we can't introduce them to today's advanced technology where people can gamble via cellphone or laptop, but that doesn't mean that's a reason for the elderly to play at home instead of playing outside the house, to be honest, the people around At my house, they are elderly, sometimes they interact with their friends playing card gambling using the money because they enjoy the interaction, not just because of the gambling, let alone winning and getting money from their friends who lost at gambling.
I never thought about introducing them to the convenience of playing on laptops and cellphones because I think their world may be different from our world today, but maybe there are a small number of elderly people who want to use it, usually those people don't have the ability to walk long distances. , usually they will like using online gambling, but if they still have the ability to travel far they will definitely reject it because it is true what you said, they like the interaction of people around offline gambling or land-based casinos.
I never thought about introducing them to the convenience of playing on laptops and cellphones because I think their world may be different from our world today, but maybe there are a small number of elderly people who want to use it, usually those people don't have the ability to walk long distances. , usually they will like using online gambling, but if they still have the ability to travel far they will definitely reject it because it is true what you said, they like the interaction of people around offline gambling or land-based casinos.
and that she likes the contact with a physical environment where there are physical machines and other people to talk, so she could leave the boredom of staying alone at home to see traffic and flux of people outside the doors.
As you can see, it wasn't only about gambling, but also about interacting with other people inside a real gambling environment, besides the technological experience not being so rewardable when compared to playing at solid, palpable physical machines.
And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
As you can see, it wasn't only about gambling, but also about interacting with other people inside a real gambling environment, besides the technological experience not being so rewardable when compared to playing at solid, palpable physical machines.
And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
Yeah I quite agree with you there are also other thread that discusses the talkative dealers on the other days and my answer is I would prefer dealer that talkative with silly jokes rather than quite and yawn all the time. Because it make gamble more alive than play with a bot.
I used to have a grandfather that play offline gambling but now he don't want since many of offline gambling in my country is illegal and gambling related is prohibited so he quit do gamble.
I haven't done this myself. But there were times when I and my friends would gamble online and there are some people who are much older than us who are hanging with us and who would get curious as to what we're doing. Some of them are gamblers themselves so the common interest would make us share how it is to gamble with just your phone. Although the reaction is of amazement I think none of them really became online gamblers. Some of them even find it hard to navigate their smart phones.
I was thinking about my past experience with my grandmother when I was still starting in crypto industry and was getting familiar with gambling yet. Since I knew she was a gambling enthusiast (loved slot machines), I tried introducing her to virtual betting, telling it was an accessible and easy method to gamble from home with comfort and easiness.
So I opened a slots website on the laptop and told her to click the touchpad over the roll button, indicated by the arrow on the screen, to start betting. She did it for a while and had some fun when winnings were hit. In the end, I asked her what she thought about the experience and if she would replace the habit of going to physical casino by the virtual one, but she replied that it was too complicated for her to play online, and that she likes the contact with a physical environment where there are physical machines and other people to talk, so she could leave the boredom of staying alone at home to see traffic and flux of people outside the doors.
As you can see, it wasn't only about gambling, but also about interacting with other people inside a real gambling environment, besides the technological experience not being so rewardable when compared to playing at solid, palpable physical machines.
And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
So I opened a slots website on the laptop and told her to click the touchpad over the roll button, indicated by the arrow on the screen, to start betting. She did it for a while and had some fun when winnings were hit. In the end, I asked her what she thought about the experience and if she would replace the habit of going to physical casino by the virtual one, but she replied that it was too complicated for her to play online, and that she likes the contact with a physical environment where there are physical machines and other people to talk, so she could leave the boredom of staying alone at home to see traffic and flux of people outside the doors.
As you can see, it wasn't only about gambling, but also about interacting with other people inside a real gambling environment, besides the technological experience not being so rewardable when compared to playing at solid, palpable physical machines.
And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
I have not ever introduced any elder gambler into gambling online but from my experience, I think most elders prefer nostalgia over anything new. Especially technology. This goes for most elders but I admit there are some older folks out there who keep up with the times. And some who know more about new technology than young people.
I think there is some merit in nostalgia though. I would prefer playing any gambling game in an old-timey, tobacco smoke filled casino more than playing with colorful shapes on my screen.
Sometimes elders know what they are talking about! It all comes down to preference though.
I haven’t. I don’t even think I have introduced a normal person to gambling. But please when you introduce people, irrespective of if they are older or younger, warn them about the risk of gambling. Some people who are addicted to it today are regretting the day they start gambling, wishing that they never started because they almost can’t stop wasting their money. What I’m saying is that we should try to spread healthy gambling so people can live better lives.
Yes. But never with a family member or a relative.
An elder gambler in my neighborhood was the one intrigued about online gambling because he also loves sports and whenever I talk to him I know he is knowledgeable about the sport that he loves. He even knew the draft picks which I didn't before.
Then I discussed with him about online sports gambling and asked if I could provide him the link. After that, we are discussing our bets online and there are times we will celebrate whenever we get a win.
Not so long ago he asked me to drink beers with him, I was surprised but then he whispered to me that he won a long parlay. He is an old man and yet he is good at analyzing games, there are times that I ask him for tips about one game that I have not analyzed yet or I don't have time to check.
It's nice to have a buddy in gambling but it's nicer if we won't cross the line borrowing money or anything. Thankfully, that has not happened yet because we are both responsible gamblers. Also, sports betting is not like an expensive game and once the game is over all we do is rest and wait for the next game to come.
An elder gambler in my neighborhood was the one intrigued about online gambling because he also loves sports and whenever I talk to him I know he is knowledgeable about the sport that he loves. He even knew the draft picks which I didn't before.
Then I discussed with him about online sports gambling and asked if I could provide him the link. After that, we are discussing our bets online and there are times we will celebrate whenever we get a win.
Not so long ago he asked me to drink beers with him, I was surprised but then he whispered to me that he won a long parlay. He is an old man and yet he is good at analyzing games, there are times that I ask him for tips about one game that I have not analyzed yet or I don't have time to check.
It's nice to have a buddy in gambling but it's nicer if we won't cross the line borrowing money or anything. Thankfully, that has not happened yet because we are both responsible gamblers. Also, sports betting is not like an expensive game and once the game is over all we do is rest and wait for the next game to come.
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And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
For my own experienced, I don't have any experience. Because most of the elders I know already struggling with our technology right now, so online betting for sure is another level that they will find difficult.And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
Digital literacy, especially scams/hacks are really prone all over the internet now, without basic knowledge in the internet will make you prone to hacks/scams.
And you, have you ever successfully introduced an elder person to virtual gambling?
I introduced online gambling to my friends but never to elder people. I do not know, I don't feel comfortable sharing gambling sites with elderly people. I feel that if I introduce gambling sites to them, I will be responsible for their losses or if they get addicted. I do not want to be blamed by their relatives if things get out of hand.
The possibility of elderly people getting hooked on gambling is huge since they have all the free time in the world plus they have the money from their retirement benefits and from the allowances their kids are giving them. So as much as possible I don't want to share anything with elder people about gambling sites.
I was thinking about my past experience with my grandmother when I was still starting in crypto industry and was getting familiar with gambling yet. Since I knew she was a gambling enthusiast (loved slot machines), I tried introducing her to virtual betting, telling it was an accessible and easy method to gamble from home with comfort and easiness.
So I opened a slots website on the laptop and told her to click the touchpad over the roll button, indicated by the arrow on the screen, to start betting. She did it for a while and had some fun when winnings were hit. In the end, I asked her what she thought about the experience and if she would replace the habit of going to physical casino by the virtual one, but she replied that it was too complicated for her to play online, and that she likes the contact with a physical environment where there are physical machines and other people to talk, so she could leave the boredom of staying alone at home to see traffic and flux of people outside the doors.
So I opened a slots website on the laptop and told her to click the touchpad over the roll button, indicated by the arrow on the screen, to start betting. She did it for a while and had some fun when winnings were hit. In the end, I asked her what she thought about the experience and if she would replace the habit of going to physical casino by the virtual one, but she replied that it was too complicated for her to play online, and that she likes the contact with a physical environment where there are physical machines and other people to talk, so she could leave the boredom of staying alone at home to see traffic and flux of people outside the doors.
Man, what a wonderful lesson you received from your grandmother.
You can clearly see that she really sees gambling as it should be: a hobby, a pastime, something fun.
This is what we have already commented on several times... nowadays people are seeing gambling as a source of income, a way to get rich easily and the casinos themselves are increasingly exploiting this desire of players. and this is wrong!!!!!!
Just like your grandmother said, it may even be fun at first because it's something new and different, but for those who see gambling as a form of entertainment and not making money, it soon becomes boring.
In my country, casinos are prohibited, but I already had the opportunity to go to a casino in Argentina... I confess that it is much better.
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