Your friend is absolutely right. The ease of access with online casinos makes it really hard to resist. So if you have a tendency to really gamble all the time, it will grow even worse if you get into online gambling. You better avoid it. Don't even start it. That is enough to develop your addiction. Not only is online gambling very accessible, it is also available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. And there are so many choices of online casinos to choose from, you could do casino hopping. It is fun yet risky.
No one can deny, that the impact of the internet has an influence on all aspects of modern human life for now. both from a positive and negative side. Regarding the problem of addiction, addiction is actually a common problem, not only in gambling. because after all, gambling has existed from ancient times to the present and developed according to the times until it switched to online casinos.
Related to the OP's posts in this thread, everyone will agree that with the presence of online casinos. everything becomes easy, we don't even have to go far to visit the casino, if we want to have fun with gambling. every hour, every day, even morning, evening, night, we can access it and play easily. but what is rarely realized is, that we have full will over ourselves. which means, if you or I let in and get lost in the pleasures of gambling without control. then what happens, we allow ourselves to become addicts. well, the point is in ourselves. how do you and I define gambling itself, if without control, without understanding, without responsibility. then, we ourselves are responsible for allowing to become addicts. It doesn't matter if it's an online casino or a physical casino, because, the real key lies with us.