Online Gambling: Modern entertainment or highly addictive game?

[sunsilk]

With the convenience provided by online gambling, we can play it anytime and anywhere. Online gambling can indeed make someone very addicted.

Where I live, gambling is an illegal activity and is often considered a negative activity, so it is very rare to do offline gambling, gathering in a certain place to play card gambling. I very rarely do they do that. But when it comes to online gambling, especially young people, many people are involved in this activity. And it is even impossible that today young people are not familiar with online gambling. Online gambling is like mushrooms spreading everywhere and many people are trapped in this activity. In fact, my country is one of the countries with the largest number of online gamblers in the world.

Those people that are in a country where gambling is restricted or illegal, you've got have a better way to treat it as a modern entertainment because it's just going to be for fun.

But those that are in countries that it isn't illegal, they're more prone into becoming addicted to it. That's why the location where we at are also a big factor.

When it seems to be a norm for majority of the locality or neighborhood then, there's a likely that you'll get attracted as well because of the crowd attention that's given to it.

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[uneng]

With the convenience provided by online gambling, we can play it anytime and anywhere. Online gambling can indeed make someone very addicted.

Where I live, gambling is an illegal activity and is often considered a negative activity, so it is very rare to do offline gambling, gathering in a certain place to play card gambling. I very rarely do they do that. But when it comes to online gambling, especially young people, many people are involved in this activity. And it is even impossible that today young people are not familiar with online gambling. Online gambling is like mushrooms spreading everywhere and many people are trapped in this activity. In fact, my country is one of the countries with the largest number of online gamblers in the world.

Gambling is highly addictive in countries where the practice is forbidden by local governments, as gamblers have no other alternative besides playing at virtual casino from the safety and secrecy of their homes or risk themselves are clandestine casinos where the police can come in at any moment. The accessibility such services provide lead gamblers into deep necessity for the activity, especially at the beginning of their gambling journey, where the losses from the long term haven't hit yet, and profitability is likely to be still going on for the gambler.

As consequence, gamblers get addicted to the profit they are making and don't want to stop anymore, until their luck finally changes to the other side and starts favouring the house. That is when the gambler should stop and break the cycle, and thankfully most do. However, there is always a minor portion of gamblers who won't give up, developing further addiction to the games, even though they aren't winning anymore.

Then we have a migration from the addiction to the profit, to the addiction to the gambling games, as profit isn't achievable anymore, but the gambler keeps insisting on it. This practice is pathological, because the individual gives up on his reasoning to continue playing without having conditions to afford to lose anymore.

[Maus0728]

It's a bit of both or should I say it's both an entertainment and an addictive avenue? I believe that this kind of thing depends from person to person since we're all unique individuals. If you've been raised as a person that's got the discipline and the ability to take things in moderation, you'd have an easy time considering online gambling as just a form of entertainment but if you've grown up in a household that don't emphasize those virtues, you'd probably have a potential or susceptible to getting addicted to gambling, your answer would also depend on it without you being aware that you're choosing which one will likely lead you to become when you gamble online.

Now I'm not saying that you can't train yourself to be disciplined but think about it this way, those who were trained at a young age would have the advantage compared to you where you'll have to just do it now.

[lienfaye]

What is online gambling in your personal opinion? Are your feelings different from when you play traditional gambling? Does it affect your gambling habits when you play online? Please share your experiences here.

Well, playing online is a convenient way to entertain yourself. Though of course chances to become addicted is high because it is accessible anytime as long as you have internet and money to use for playing. The experience is similar to traditional, the advantage is you have a privacy and can focus more on the game since you're alone.

What I like about online casino is, it's hassle free. However, one should have a discipline because if you let yourself become addicted in gambling (since many gamblers already fall in such situation) it can ruin your life. Thus, it depends on how you gamble, because it is crucial to have a self control to be able to manage your emotion.

[wxa7115]

What is online gambling in your personal opinion? Are your feelings different from when you play traditional gambling? Does it affect your gambling habits when you play online? Please share your experiences here.

Well, playing online is a convenient way to entertain yourself. Though of course chances to become addicted is high because it is accessible anytime as long as you have internet and money to use for playing. The experience is similar to traditional, the advantage is you have a privacy and can focus more on the game since you're alone.

What I like about online casino is, it's hassle free. However, one should have a discipline because if you let yourself become addicted in gambling (since many gamblers already fall in such situation) it can ruin your life. Thus, it depends on how you gamble, because it is crucial to have a self control to be able to manage your emotion.

Everything has drawbacks, and while almost everything is more convenient and accessible today, at the same time this has the disadvantage that it has never been easier to spend your money on a sudden impulse.

And we are seeing that many people cannot deal with this environment and many others have a lot of problems doing so, so I think it will take people a few generations to adjust to this new environment in which the only tangible limitation that seems to exist is the amount of money on your bank account.

[hyudien]

It's a bit of both or should I say it's both an entertainment and an addictive avenue? I believe that this kind of thing depends from person to person since we're all unique individuals. If you've been raised as a person that's got the discipline and the ability to take things in moderation, you'd have an easy time considering online gambling as just a form of entertainment but if you've grown up in a household that don't emphasize those virtues, you'd probably have a potential or susceptible to getting addicted to gambling, your answer would also depend on it without you being aware that you're choosing which one will likely lead you to become when you gamble online.

Now I'm not saying that you can't train yourself to be disciplined but think about it this way, those who were trained at a young age would have the advantage compared to you where you'll have to just do it now.

I think it's true, this is something that is entertaining but also the opportunity to become addicted is very big. What you say is correct, it depends on each individual who has what kind of attitude, maybe for those who are raised with the right discipline they will not be addicted even if they can get a big win which can make them addicted to continuing to do it. and indeed think that online gambling is just a means of entertainment, not a means of making money, let alone making it a job.
This is different from individuals who do not have good discipline, maybe they will easily get addicted because of the tempting wins that are said to be easy to get but in reality are difficult to get. In my opinion, for those who cannot be disciplined in gambling, they will very easily become addicted to gambling, even though they say it's just entertainment, but I think it's just an excuse to cover up their gambling addiction on this one thing.