The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit

[Wapfika]

Children will have to go to bet and play any mobile games they like and with this, addiction is becoming likely faster than what we think which can eat up our time and ways we respond to things.

As much as possible parent should keep their children busy, maybe providing schedule for them to follow can help them avoid getting into gambling. Parents can still do something as their child character will depend on how they allow them to grow. Though it can only be possible to children who are still relying in their parents but those who already into gambling ,maybe giving samples on how it can ruin their lives once they don’t do anything to control their habits. It’s still a matter of self discipline and how one wanted to enjoy or run their lives.

[Taskford]

Children will have to go to bet and play any mobile games they like and with this, addiction is becoming likely faster than what we think which can eat up our time and ways we respond to things.

As much as possible parent should keep their children busy, maybe providing schedule for them to follow can help them avoid getting into gambling. Parents can still do something as their child character will depend on how they allow them to grow. Though it can only be possible to children who are still relying in their parents but those who already into gambling ,maybe giving samples on how it can ruin their lives once they don’t do anything to control their habits. It’s still a matter of self discipline and how one wanted to enjoy or run their lives.

Its very tiring and might your child will be rebellious to you if you dictate what things they need to do and you push them to do it even if they dislike what activity feed to them. Maybe much better if you educate them about this since learning it on early stage will make them realize more earlier than engaging to much on this is so risky for them and most provably they avoid this especially if they didn't start to go with this activities.

[madnessteat]

To prevent this from happening parents need to control the entertainment of their child and limit children from this kind of games. If a child is already involved in gambling, educate him or her about the principles of casinos and the likelihood of winning at a particular game of chance. Children's future depends on parents' willingness to help them make the right choice when they themselves are not experienced enough.

Preventing the minors to the extent that parents will show a strict might not be effective. It mostly leads for these minor to become more curious about what gambling is all about. There's no 100% way to prevent them encountering gambling while they are growing up. With just a simple walk in park, they might encounter gambling-related stuff. Or while at their school, one of their classmate is already doing some small gambling etc.

The best way is to continue educating them, as you mentioned, all the risks associated in doing gambling. Believe me, it's not that a minor will just have an interest in gambling that easily even nowadays we are in the generation where most minors are exposed in gadgets playing games freely. It's still depend on their preference. Just because they are minors, they are not capable of thinking what's right or wrong.

I did not say that we should be strict with our children because they need a completely different approach. First and foremost, a parent should be a friend to his or her child, not a forbidding boss.
My main idea is to explain to the child that he can either spend his money on something material here and now and enjoy it, or he can spend it on a chance that will probably increase his money, but with a very small chance.

[dimonstration]

Getting access to the internet is as easily and we could never think and both children and adolescents are always eager to search for whatsoever they like on the net without anyone knowledge or control. Mobile games are becoming more popular and we the current trend that we are, since we don't need to send fiat again to casinos in order to make bets but using crypto looks somehow easy without any traces.

Children will have to go to bet and play any mobile games they like and with this, addiction is becoming likely faster than what we think which can eat up our time and ways we respond to things.

Those underage still have no capability to control their emotion, that's why they easily get addict in something they usually do, if they are already exposed in gambling then that is something that their parents needs to address or else, their whole life will become more miserable. Mobile gambling is very comfortable and very accessible, I see this as a good advantage if you can't go outside and play in casinos, but again if you are playing too much and spending too much time on the screen, you might also ended up addicted. Control yourself as early as possible, don't let those addiction takes you from real world, be responsible on your gambling activities.

This is true. I have a niece that use his parent credit card to purchase in game items on the game he was addicted. His parents didn’t notice it until the credit card bill arrive with 1000$ on it. Luckily they manage to refund the credit money and just ban my niece account. I believe there are worst scenario like this that involves mobile gaming addiction especially on minors. It’s very hard to moderate there mobile phone activity because it’s very handy.

I think setting a parent control on the underage person is the best way to moderate them without attacking too much there privacy.

[TheGreatPython]

Being addicted to gambling is simply not going away in this industry. Most of them when get addicted to gambling and become greedy for money, and the result is having an addiction where their body and mind will search for it.

That's why it's rare for a gambling addict to change and abandon this habit. It will be very difficult on the part of the gambling addict to let go.

Moreover, I noticed that online gambling spread especially when the whole world faced the pandemic. Although almost all of the land-based casinos have closed eventually the gambling owners found a way to conduct online gambling that can be downloaded using a mobile device so that even if they are at home and do not go out, gamblers can still gamble.

So the gambling addicts had the hope of being able to play in casino apps even if it was online and they were at home. This is also probably what you are saying that gambling addicts have become hybrids because gambling owners have used the technology we have in this day and age.

Yeah some will remain to be an addicted gambler because they choose this path and they are willing to face any consequences. In today's era, the rate of gambling addictions has increased dramatically and this of course by the help of portability or the smartphones where people can play almost anywhere. I think not all who are greedy in gambling is due to the want of too much money but there might be some who got addicted because of its ambiance and fun factor. Same to those who got addicted in video games.

The pandemic did also contribute because people got removed from their jobs and others were only forced to stay at home. This is why they look for a way to earn or way to have fun so they discovered online gambling.

[jostorres]

As explained on article, mobile phones accelerate the process of addiction in different forms. Gambling causes urge to deposit and it is easy for mobile users to click few times to refill his casino balance and keep repeating till it becomes zero, in worst case addiction leads to serious debt. Main reason is again access to faster internet, mobile banking, online casino combination, IMHO.

But most people enjoy it without negative consequences. They are just tools and some people know how to use them and some don't. What can we do to ensure that people do not use these tools for harm? In any case, do not ban mobile banking and the Internet. I think people who have problems with gambling should help themselves (or with the help of specialists) but not at the expense of restrictions and bans for other people.

Maybe what they are playing is the free/demo version of the game but if play the normal way then there will be negative consequences if you lose because you will also lose your hard earned money. Gambling is too big to become a tool but when you say tool, they are small things which can be use to fix the main thing. Gambling is not hard to understand but it all boils down if how one will accept its outcome.

If you will think deeply about every losses you make even if it's only small then you aren't gambling the right way. Better if you will not continue but you can only find an alternative to make you money or to make you entertained.

[uneng]

As explained on article, mobile phones accelerate the process of addiction in different forms. Gambling causes urge to deposit and it is easy for mobile users to click few times to refill his casino balance and keep repeating till it becomes zero, in worst case addiction leads to serious debt. Main reason is again access to faster internet, mobile banking, online casino combination, IMHO.

But most people enjoy it without negative consequences. They are just tools and some people know how to use them and some don't. What can we do to ensure that people do not use these tools for harm? In any case, do not ban mobile banking and the Internet. I think people who have problems with gambling should help themselves (or with the help of specialists) but not at the expense of restrictions and bans for other people.

Maybe what they are playing is the free/demo version of the game but if play the normal way then there will be negative consequences if you lose because you will also lose your hard earned money. Gambling is too big to become a tool but when you say tool, they are small things which can be use to fix the main thing. Gambling is not hard to understand but it all boils down if how one will accept its outcome.

If you will think deeply about every losses you make even if it's only small then you aren't gambling the right way. Better if you will not continue but you can only find an alternative to make you money or to make you entertained.

Most people will play for free or will play for real money in a manner it won't affect them negatively. Someone might ask then why addiction rates are increasing so alarmingly then. And I would say it's because internet and technological gadgets are spreading so fast nowadays that every rates are increasing quickly, but on the same proportion: that means the number of gamblers is rising, while the number of addicted gamblers is also rising, although most of them won't present any problematic behavior, just like it has always been. I believe a small percentage of population is fine in losing money constantly like addicted gamblers do. Others will simply give up.

[gabbie2010]

Children will have to go to bet and play any mobile games they like and with this, addiction is becoming likely faster than what we think which can eat up our time and ways we respond to things.

As much as possible parent should keep their children busy, maybe providing schedule for them to follow can help them avoid getting into gambling. Parents can still do something as their child character will depend on how they allow them to grow. Though it can only be possible to children who are still relying in their parents but those who already into gambling ,maybe giving samples on how it can ruin their lives once they don’t do anything to control their habits. It’s still a matter of self discipline and how one wanted to enjoy or run their lives.

Work schedules and other activities of the parents always took most of their time thus wouldn't have time to check on their wards or children behavior towards gambling, it's worrisome that in third world countries parents doing 9-5 daily job wouldn't get home till late night due to road traffics thus by the time they get home they would be tired and go straight to bed after eating their supper. The best bet should have been preventing them from having access to those devices that will aid gambling, unfortunately parents wouldn't be around to follow it up with strict complaince then how do we control their habit? Honestly once these kids are earning some amount of money they will become addicted to it.

[virasog]

What can be done for these types of addicts? Even if they had no phones. There are still so many enablers around in the form of free WIFI and internet cafes.

Perhaps treatment centers would be located in remote areas with no internet access? That seems like it could represent a good first step. But of course the second they returned to modern society. There would always be the temptation to revert to former behavior. Which could be tough to resist.

When you say about the bitcoin addiction treatment, we cannot just take the gambler to a place with no internet so that he stays away from gambling. This is not a practical solution. Internet is here to stay, and we need to find a way to stay away from gambling, even if gambling can be accessed from our phone anytime.
For this, a proper counselling of the gambler addict should happen, and he should be told a path where he could spend his time other than gambling, yet giving the same pleasure which he gets from gambling.

[Fortify]

One of the better pieces published on gambling addiction that I have seen.

It is possible that the form of addiction described here is a hybrid addiction. Its a cross between gambling addiction and internet addiction. With mobile phones being an enabler.

Reading some of the quotations I actually started to feel sorry for some of these people. Usually I consider gambling addiction to be a lower priority than substance abuse. But knowing how easy and convenient the internet makes things. It has to be an extremely difficult temptation for those suffering gambling addiction to resist.

Treatment for these types of addictions would also be difficult. If only due to the necessity of owning and carrying a phone in this day and age.

What can be done for these types of addicts? Even if they had no phones. There are still so many enablers around in the form of free WIFI and internet cafes.

Perhaps treatment centers would be located in remote areas with no internet access? That seems like it could represent a good first step. But of course the second they returned to modern society. There would always be the temptation to revert to former behavior. Which could be tough to resist.

It seems like different age groups need to be handled in different ways, but ultimately the best solution would be a worldwide gambling register that somebody could sign up to and self exclude themselves from every single gambling activity for a specified length of time. Gambling, like many addictions, can be tricky to break free from and many people are so stuck in one environment that they do not see any ability to change. Deep down, it does require the solid will from within to be able to beat it, because even short term solutions will eventually require you to think about gambling differently - to realize that it can be very detrimental to your finances and accept you should never go near it if you cannot handle it responsibly.

[seleme]

But it is not only fault of person who fall in trap, I guess current direction of general gambling promotions aims to get more users as much as possible. Some of gamblers have weak psychology that convinces them it is easy to win money on online gambling platforms while strong minds can make math to find odds of winning. Regulation should be mandatory for online casinos especially local platforms have to be checked due to the increasing traffic, IMO.

Most of the crypto casinos are not regulated yet and as a gambler we should be more careful on dealing with them because as we can see, those casinos are not compatible using only your phones which makes it more accessible to the gamblers. I agree that having a weak emotion can put you on a more risky place and you might get addict easily because of this. No matter where you play, you should still need to control yourself because too much is not good at all, just gamble what you can afford to lose and stay discipline.

I agree with you, it takes time to understand for an addicted gambler what you have explained in this post because of being on HYPE and ignoring external suggestions. It becomes easier every past day and we are in charge of controlling our emotions along with online bank accounts for mentioned reasons. Discipline and money management skills are needed to save money and not lose it instantly after paycheck on various online casinos. Risky methods have an awesome winning ratio unless you can't afford to lose the money you used for making deposits on a gambling platform.

[goinmerry]

Honestly once these kids are earning some amount of money they will become addicted to it.

Don't underestimate the ability of those kids to become responsible even at that age. Once a kid exposes to gambling, it's always 50-50 if they will turn into addicted ones or not. At that age, there are lots of things that kids can do that can make them not focus on only gambling. Nowadays, kids are being exposed to gadgets therefore they will usually spend time at online games and not directly gambling in general.

Kids also have the mindset of being worried about spending their money. It's not that they will just throw away it easily in gambling.

[serjent05]

Honestly once these kids are earning some amount of money they will become addicted to it.

Don't underestimate the ability of those kids to become responsible even at that age. Once a kid exposes to gambling, it's always 50-50 if they will turn into addicted ones or not. At that age, there are lots of things that kids can do that can make them not focus on only gambling. Nowadays, kids are being exposed to gadgets therefore they will usually spend time at online games and not directly gambling in general.

Kids also have the mindset of being worried about spending their money. It's not that they will just throw away it easily in gambling.

I agree, kids have different reactions on things.  Not because we witness a kid that doesn't react well on certain things, it means all of them are the same.  I have known some kids you have high emotional intelligence, they sometimes know how to handle things better than adults.  Aside from that, in terms of gambling topics on kids, I think parents can greatly help in guiding these kids to adjust accordingly.  Shutting their worlds on gambling isn't a healthy thing because it will be a stranger territory when they come to age and engaged with it.  Besides kids will be able to access them on mobile devices in one way or another.  It is always better for kids to have awareness and proper guidance, especially in gambling to avoid problems in the future.

Technology will continue to advance and it is best for parents and guardians to educate kids in a proper way about gambling and other stuff.

[Issa56]

I have witnessed such a situation. Some young kids in my area get addicted to these types of games and then they are able to get all the gambling activities. The worst part is that on of them learned to steal money from his family. He used to spend money and gamble constantly. At one point he started getting separated from his family. If a minor gets involved in gambling it is difficult to bring him back.

I think it's just better you should always educate your children about gambling, you should always monitor their mobile devices, monitor the friends they make and always monitor their movements, some of those minors are always influenced by their friends or their environment, It's really common now that you see minor gambling, since they are lacking sense so they will do everything possible to get money to gamble, it's really difficult for minor to control their self when gambling compare to adults which will lead to involving their self in illegal activities just to get money to gamble, most of them always look for online gambling websites that won't request for kyc before they can gamble.

[Viscore]

It is obvious that with these technological advancements also come some negativities for a lot of people, great example outlined here are gamblers who cannot control their gambling urges. Usually self-exclusion solves this problem. But there are still cases wherein people can access other gambling platforms due to a weak self-exclusion system. By this time, it would be best if the gambler would seek advice from a psychologist regarding their condition. Intervention really is the key and perhaps the last resort for addicted gamblers if they keep on finding ways to gamble even though they want to stop.

Gambling addiction even from mobile gaming has also become rampant these days maybe because mobile gambling has become so easier that even kids these days have learned to access on it and become totally attached. The reason why most of the kids these days become lazy from doing household chores and sometimes turn into dishonest kids so they can ask money from their parents.

[Vaskiy]

It is obvious that with these technological advancements also come some negativities for a lot of people, great example outlined here are gamblers who cannot control their gambling urges. Usually self-exclusion solves this problem. But there are still cases wherein people can access other gambling platforms due to a weak self-exclusion system. By this time, it would be best if the gambler would seek advice from a psychologist regarding their condition. Intervention really is the key and perhaps the last resort for addicted gamblers if they keep on finding ways to gamble even though they want to stop.

Gambling addiction even from mobile gaming has also become rampant these days maybe because mobile gambling has become so easier that even kids these days have learned to access on it and become totally attached. The reason why most of the kids these days become lazy from doing household chores and sometimes turn into dishonest kids so they can ask money from their parents.

Only parents have control what the kids doing with phone, so it is responsibility of parents to keep away children from dangerous websites. Using various softwares like VPN of Parental Control services can be helpful for avoiding it. I have seen underage people using their dad's credit card to play slots and make some money to buy new stuff. It doesn't make sense to blame casino but when they ask KYC, it becomes hard to tell parent and explain situation.

These days keeping kids away from mobile is really a hard task, because the education is somehow connected with mobile phones. Kids are allowed to learn through different applications. This is good, but it also have its drawbacks. Parents need to keep watching, but at some point they itself find it to be a disturbance to their kids. Providing them with the limited access could stop them from entering unwanted sites.

[AicecreaME]

Gambling has indeed positive and negative effects to the player. The effects of it will depend on how the gamblers take responsibility on their behavior towards betting. If they are impulsive and high-risk gamblers without the literacy about financial and risk management, they are likely to suffer gambling addiction and other problems related with gambling such as money aspect. However, if they are calculated and moderate-average gamblers with financial and risk management enough knowledge, they are lesser prone with gambling addiction and monetary issues because they won't bet more than what they can afford to lose.

The rise of mobile gambling has become an entertainment for some and way of generating income to some. To others, it is a mixture of both. It brought advantages to those who utilized it in strategic and right manner while it brought misfortunes and troubles to those who are haste in making a decision. It's up to us whether which of the two we want to be. Because gambling has a lot of risks and one of it is the serious case of addiction that is hard to managed and hard to treat most especially if the person is uncooperative and unwilling to be diagnosed by the professionals.

[electronicash]

It is obvious that with these technological advancements also come some negativities for a lot of people, great example outlined here are gamblers who cannot control their gambling urges. Usually self-exclusion solves this problem. But there are still cases wherein people can access other gambling platforms due to a weak self-exclusion system. By this time, it would be best if the gambler would seek advice from a psychologist regarding their condition. Intervention really is the key and perhaps the last resort for addicted gamblers if they keep on finding ways to gamble even though they want to stop.

Gambling addiction even from mobile gaming has also become rampant these days maybe because mobile gambling has become so easier that even kids these days have learned to access on it and become totally attached. The reason why most of the kids these days become lazy from doing household chores and sometimes turn into dishonest kids so they can ask money from their parents.

Only parents have control what the kids doing with phone, so it is responsibility of parents to keep away children from dangerous websites. Using various softwares like VPN of Parental Control services can be helpful for avoiding it. I have seen underage people using their dad's credit card to play slots and make some money to buy new stuff. It doesn't make sense to blame casino but when they ask KYC, it becomes hard to tell parent and explain situation.

These days keeping kids away from mobile is really a hard task, because the education is somehow connected with mobile phones. Kids are allowed to learn through different applications. This is good, but it also have its drawbacks. Parents need to keep watching, but at some point they itself find it to be a disturbance to their kids. Providing them with the limited access could stop them from entering unwanted sites.

kids actually are also hard to control. they now know too much that they'd curse and call me gay when i limit their access to the internet. its the way they contact friends and classmates in school. internet is useful to them. but they all learn all this thru the internet too. if they start to use their access to gamble, i guess i'd have to really use my most powerful tool, my belt.

government today also limit parents to execute consequences when they are committing mistakes. during my time, my parents whip me with rice cooker wire. if i whip my kids using wire, i'd be sleeping in a prison cell the next day.

[Fundamentals Of]

If gambling is very accessible, that would be very dangerous. If you love gambling, and there's really a reason why we love gambling, and it's because it is really fun, it poses a lot of danger if it's in front of you all day long, night and day, every day. That's going to be a very difficult thing to resist especially if you lack self-discipline and self-control. And because each one of us has mobile phones already and internet connection is already available all the time, this fear of ruined people is right in front of us.

[AicecreaME]

It is obvious that with these technological advancements also come some negativities for a lot of people, great example outlined here are gamblers who cannot control their gambling urges. Usually self-exclusion solves this problem. But there are still cases wherein people can access other gambling platforms due to a weak self-exclusion system. By this time, it would be best if the gambler would seek advice from a psychologist regarding their condition. Intervention really is the key and perhaps the last resort for addicted gamblers if they keep on finding ways to gamble even though they want to stop.

Gambling addiction even from mobile gaming has also become rampant these days maybe because mobile gambling has become so easier that even kids these days have learned to access on it and become totally attached. The reason why most of the kids these days become lazy from doing household chores and sometimes turn into dishonest kids so they can ask money from their parents.

Only parents have control what the kids doing with phone, so it is responsibility of parents to keep away children from dangerous websites. Using various softwares like VPN of Parental Control services can be helpful for avoiding it. I have seen underage people using their dad's credit card to play slots and make some money to buy new stuff. It doesn't make sense to blame casino but when they ask KYC, it becomes hard to tell parent and explain situation.

It's one of the possible ways parents can resort to, to protect their children from the possible effects of gambling. Although this won't really guarantee that their children will be safe from the influence of gambling because like what is already known, gambling is all over the Internet and they can easily have an access to it if the gambling website do not really ask for KYC. In addition, the kids are now getting smarter and more techy which means some kids are already knowledgeable enough to bypass the security.

I still believe that it is much better to educate the children once they reach the right age to understand the concept of gambling. This is to ensure that no matter what they see, hear, or read online, they won't be lost in the wrong path and instead, they will know how to determine a risk and an opportunity and when to do actions that will benefit them.