Do you care about what people say about you gambling?

[shivansps]

Greetings everyone and happy new year all!

Okay, today I was actually out for a little business and it happens that I almost spent all my time wasted without me even having a smooth deal, but along the line I have few games that I have placed a bet and was wanting to view my games from my phone since gambling is now mobile, what I meant by mobile is that you can access your account at any place provided that you have an internet connectivity you will login to monitor your matches.

So when I logged in, someone close to me easily peep from my left hand side and noticed that I just opened my account monitoring my games, at this point what he said is "ahh you don join dem"? Meaning you have also belong to the groups of people that gambles?

On a lighter note, I just smile and asked him if there is anything wrong while gambling or while monitoring my games and he said nothing but just that few people he knew that are gambling almost turned useless.

This now triggered me to come ask here whether you cares about what people says or sees you as when gambling, I know there are people who don't know you from time or who doesn't believe that you are a gambler and if it happens that you came across such people and their reaction towards you goes other way round would you care about it or you just totally ignore them?

Let's discuss amicably

Interesting message.
It doesn’t matter to me what people think about my hobby, be it gambling or something else. Everyone has free will and the right to choose what they see fit, unless prohibited by law. Another thing is that you need to have wisdom and watching your bets is not always appropriate. I mean situations when, for example, you are at work or on a date or in a company on a holiday, this can be considered disrespect and bad manners. And regarding people’s opinions, everyone has the right to think about me and everyone else what they see fit

[Accardo]

Gambling is not wrong, that means it's useless to worry about what people say regarding my gambling habit. It's a matter of personal perspectives from non gamblers who see gambling as something wrong. However, when they tend to criticize a player it'll be right for the gambler to have a conversation with the critic to understand why he's still thinking of gamblers as irresponsible. Gone are the days when people reasoned of gamblers in such a manner. Hence, it's crucial that the critic learns something new after the conversation with the gambler.

Some of them also wants to become gamblers but are afraid of joining the niche. Due to negative things they've heard about gambling. Although, such thoughts doesn't help enough in stopping people from gambling. Nobody cares about those critics and their wrong perspectives. Once a gambler is not compulsive he's fine and is not meant to bother about what people would say about him. Sometimes close friends would be surprised to learn about our involvement in gambling yet it's not a big deal to bother or worry about. Addiction is the only thing a player should avoid not being a victim.

Yes but however it is a fact that most people have a negative perspective on gambling which makes them have a negative perspective on people who are involved in gambling so that criticism appears, I don't know what the problem is but what is certain is that society only sees as a whole about the bad behavior of a gambler who has entered the addiction phase, even though basically for example you are not one of the addicted gamblers but still people will not believe it.

On the other hand I don't know whether what you said is true or not about those who like to criticize actually want to be involved in gambling or not, but certainly one of the reasons they criticize others who are involved in gambling is because they really think that gambling is an activity that is prohibited or that must be avoided and with this then I think it is unlikely that they want to get involved. At the end of the day yes obviously whoever you are if you are involved in gambling then yes there might always be some people who criticize but as I said earlier that we don't need to care too much about it and one of my suggestions is that you better keep your gambling habits a secret to avoid the criticism and the other thing is always listen and apply some of the best advice from people to implement many precautions so that we can avoid the possibility of addiction.

Beginning from your second paragraph, critics indirectly seek for information where there are not. Personally, have seen people who criticized some habits in the past but are now a part of the habit. A new gambler can criticize an addict, not knowing he could get addicted soon. Who knew he'd become a gambler. It's all a matter of environment and fun activities. Same way those critics wouldn't understand that they can become gamblers in future. Hence, getting hold of such critics to realize that their thoughts about gambling is completely wrong is a nice reminder.

Those few words of conversation would be cemented in his brain. Such that, in future, eventually, when he becomes a gambler, those words will guide him. One side of the publicity is in decline. That's why most people in the society accept that gambling is completely wrong. Helping them redirect such thoughts will help the person to see gambling differently. And such complaints on criticism and stigmatism will be reduced. How you know this is that everyone around you who is a non gambler will argue that gambling has no health benefit.

[DabsPoorVersion]

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Interesting message.
It doesn’t matter to me what people think about my hobby, be it gambling or something else. Everyone has free will and the right to choose what they see fit, unless prohibited by law. Another thing is that you need to have wisdom and watching your bets is not always appropriate. I mean situations when, for example, you are at work or on a date or in a company on a holiday, this can be considered disrespect and bad manners. And regarding people’s opinions, everyone has the right to think about me and everyone else what they see fit

I agree, besides the money you are using in gambling is your own money. The fact that it is your own money, it only means that other people doesn't have the right to think or say/dictate anything about your hobby. Letting them to think whatever they want and didn't give any interest on their opinion is good, we don't need to stress ourselves with other peoples opinion, what we should think is how we become comfortable with our hobbies.

[klidex]

If it was someone else I would ignore it, why is it like that? because they don't know me in depth and don't know where I live so just relax even though other people will comment badly even though I'm gambling. But I always anticipate this by not gambling in public places, especially when we're in crowded places and there's not much difference in seating too far from other people because I feel uncomfortable if other people see my activities whether I'm chatting or playing on social media or even gambling because they could peek or want to know what we want to do. Because I also don't like peeking at other people's cell phones because cell phones are personal.

So whatever the reason, I don't care about other people's comments, but if my friend reprimands me or comments on what I do, whether it's gambling, I will respond why is that? because they know me and my family. So I'm maybe will explain that my gambling is healthy gambling, sometimes my friend is just worried if we gamble to the point of becoming addicted, therefore usually good friends always remind us not to go beyond the limits.

[Docnaster]

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Interesting message.
It doesn’t matter to me what people think about my hobby, be it gambling or something else. Everyone has free will and the right to choose what they see fit, unless prohibited by law. Another thing is that you need to have wisdom and watching your bets is not always appropriate. I mean situations when, for example, you are at work or on a date or in a company on a holiday, this can be considered disrespect and bad manners. And regarding people’s opinions, everyone has the right to think about me and everyone else what they see fit

I agree, besides the money you are using in gambling is your own money. The fact that it is your own money, it only means that other people doesn't have the right to think or say/dictate anything about your hobby. Letting them to think whatever they want and didn't give any interest on their opinion is good, we don't need to stress ourselves with other peoples opinion, what we should think is how we become comfortable with our hobbies.

As an adult, it's important to grow up to stage that you don't find people's opinion about your personal life relevant and in my own opinion, someone shouldn't be addressed as an adult when people's opinions about personal life still bothers the person. However, it's also important to note if what people are saying about you is a true reflection of your negativity or not because sometimes, people around us tends to genuinely care for us.
That being said, I do not care what people around me make of my gambling engagements and that's because whenever I gamble, I don't do it with any other person's resources but mine. Gambling is one engagement that an adult solely takes responsibility of the outcome so anyone's opinion about it is absolutely unimportant provided that such adult is gambling responsibly. But in a situation whereby an adult isn't responsible in his gambling engagements, it's very important to take advice from other people who genuinely wants the person to stop gambling irresponsibly

[Cryptoprincess101]

If it was someone else I would ignore it, why is it like that? because they don't know me in depth and don't know where I live so just relax even though other people will comment badly even though I'm gambling. But I always anticipate this by not gambling in public places, especially when we're in crowded places and there's not much difference in seating too far from other people because I feel uncomfortable if other people see my activities whether I'm chatting or playing on social media or even gambling because they could peek or want to know what we want to do. Because I also don't like peeking at other people's cell phones because cell phones are personal.

Gambling is meant to be done at a leisure time when one is free and not in an open place or crowded environment because we live is a world where people are more interested to know what others are doing and since you stay looking at your phone in a public place there is no way someone will not peep to know what you are doing or watching. Avoiding doing some personal things just like gambling that most people in the society feels that people who are into gambling are either wayward or useless, no need to give them opportunity to talk ill about simply because they have seen others go wrong direction in their gambling life.

So whatever the reason, I don't care about other people's comments, but if my friend reprimands me or comments on what I do, whether it's gambling, I will respond why is that? because they know me and my family. So I'm maybe will explain that my gambling is healthy gambling, sometimes my friend is just worried if we gamble to the point of becoming addicted, therefore usually good friends always remind us not to go beyond the limits.

Exactly, so far as they don't know you there is no reason to give them any explanation or care about what they said to you, but if it involves someone who knows you or a friend of yours it is good for them to know your are a gambler because they can give you good advice on how to go with your gambling because they are your friends so they will not like anything bad to happen to you so they are likely to be helpful to you.

[Webetcoins]

One thing to say with those people that are trying to distract us while we do our own thing, mind their own business.

I don't care a thing they say, am I gambling with their money? am I using their time? No, they don't and that's why I don't care about them and whatever they say upon looking at my activities whether on my laptop or smartphone.

We've got our own lives to deal with and it's too short to be thinking of the welfare of other's activities.

This! This must be the ones that we must do during those situations but I think there are people who are just weak and can get triggered easily by these. I think the only thing that they can do is to confront those people and tell them if what's really their problem? Tell them that if they won't stop we are going to report them to the authorities. I think there is a case for that. It's like bullying.

We shouldn't let those people continue to be like that because they can also do this to other people. Doing so will also help them to focus on fixing their selves and maybe they will thank us one day for this. They might also want to be our buddies after that.

[livingfree]

One thing to say with those people that are trying to distract us while we do our own thing, mind their own business.

I don't care a thing they say, am I gambling with their money? am I using their time? No, they don't and that's why I don't care about them and whatever they say upon looking at my activities whether on my laptop or smartphone.

We've got our own lives to deal with and it's too short to be thinking of the welfare of other's activities.

This! This must be the ones that we must do during those situations but I think there are people who are just weak and can get triggered easily by these. I think the only thing that they can do is to confront those people and tell them if what's really their problem? Tell them that if they won't stop we are going to report them to the authorities. I think there is a case for that. It's like bullying.

We shouldn't let those people continue to be like that because they can also do this to other people. Doing so will also help them to focus on fixing their selves and maybe they will thank us one day for this. They might also want to be our buddies after that.

I wouldn't spend time confronting them.

I will mind my own thing and they should just mind their own business as well. Confronting them will make you look like a villain when they're already ruining your day.

You're just going to ruin your day with that and I guess the latter will work, tell them that you're going to report them to the authorities if they won't stop bothering you.

[boty]

I agree, besides the money you are using in gambling is your own money. The fact that it is your own money, it only means that other people doesn't have the right to think or say/dictate anything about your hobby. Letting them to think whatever they want and didn't give any interest on their opinion is good, we don't need to stress ourselves with other peoples opinion, what we should think is how we become comfortable with our hobbies.

If we gamble with the money we have ourselves, of course we don't need to think about what other people say about the things we do and we have the right to use the money we have according to our own wishes, but we have to keep doing it in a controlled manner and don't let it happen. puts us in financial trouble and we have to be responsible for what we do, but if they continue to dictate what we do, of course we can avoid this person, it would be better because this makes us uncomfortable and the most important thing is that we do this wisely. do not disturb other people and we can be responsible for the things we do.

[angrybirdy]

I agree, besides the money you are using in gambling is your own money. The fact that it is your own money, it only means that other people doesn't have the right to think or say/dictate anything about your hobby. Letting them to think whatever they want and didn't give any interest on their opinion is good, we don't need to stress ourselves with other peoples opinion, what we should think is how we become comfortable with our hobbies.

If we gamble with the money we have ourselves, of course we don't need to think about what other people say about the things we do and we have the right to use the money we have according to our own wishes, but we have to keep doing it in a controlled manner and don't let it happen. puts us in financial trouble and we have to be responsible for what we do, but if they continue to dictate what we do, of course we can avoid this person, it would be better because this makes us uncomfortable and the most important thing is that we do this wisely. do not disturb other people and we can be responsible for the things we do.

that's right, it's okay to receive criticism or advice from other people, but if they say a lot of things that it's not nice or really offensive words, we're the ones to adjust and stay away because we're the ones who understand better, I'll think It's just that they are narrow-minded because why do they worry so much about what other people are doing, does the gambling money come from them? if not, they should keep it to themselves, shut their mouth and mind their own businesses.

[Rockstarguy]

One thing to say with those people that are trying to distract us while we do our own thing, mind their own business.

I don't care a thing they say, am I gambling with their money? am I using their time? No, they don't and that's why I don't care about them and whatever they say upon looking at my activities whether on my laptop or smartphone.

We've got our own lives to deal with and it's too short to be thinking of the welfare of other's activities.

One thing about life is that whatever you do people will always complain and when you understand this when you see people trying talk things about your hobby it won't bother you because already you know people are good to talk about things that are not their business.  Since it is always like this, to avoid people talking about what you do it will be best to be reserved in all you do because what people don't know about you they can't talk about it.

For me I think gambling is something that people don't even need to have to know your involvement with because it has no business with people knowing about it, it is just for you to play and wait for the outcome of it which people don't even need to know.

[moneystery]

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So whatever the reason, I don't care about other people's comments, but if my friend reprimands me or comments on what I do, whether it's gambling, I will respond why is that? because they know me and my family. So I'm maybe will explain that my gambling is healthy gambling, sometimes my friend is just worried if we gamble to the point of becoming addicted, therefore usually good friends always remind us not to go beyond the limits.

that's right, it's our right to gamble or not, so we don't need to think too much about what other people think about our gambling, because it's our money, it's us who lose or win, so why do we need to care about what other people think? so instead of worrying about what other people think of us, it's better for us to focus on what we do and not gamble excessively, because that is the most important thing compared to thinking about other people's opinions.

[irhact]

that's right, it's our right to gamble or not, so we don't need to think too much about what other people think about our gambling, because it's our money, it's us who lose or win, so why do we need to care about what other people think? so instead of worrying about what other people think of us, it's better for us to focus on what we do and not gamble excessively, because that is the most important thing compared to thinking about other people's opinions.

I support this comment, every individual should understand that in life everyone has a choice to make. The fact that one doesn't gamble shouldn't mean that they should judge people who do so, a lot of individuals do generalise things a lot and it's so unfair. The fact that he knows some people who got messed up due to addiction or irresponsible gambling doesn't mean every gambler ain't responsible that's what many individuals fail to understand.

 Well, so far I'm not an addicted or irresponsible gambler, what others think about me gambler is their own problem and not mine, so far I'm gambling responsible and not allowing it to affect others. Gambling is not a bad idea but it's when you don't gamble responsibly that's wrong that's why most of these bookies and online casinos would always advice people to do so which is gambling responsible.

[Zigabel]

I agree, besides the money you are using in gambling is your own money. The fact that it is your own money, it only means that other people doesn't have the right to think or say/dictate anything about your hobby. Letting them to think whatever they want and didn't give any interest on their opinion is good, we don't need to stress ourselves with other peoples opinion, what we should think is how we become comfortable with our hobbies.

People always have the right to think what ever it is they want to think and we have almost no power as to control whatever it is they want to think but then it's in our power to still do that which we wan to do regardless of what the taughts of these people will be because if you are not happy and are probably sad and didn't gets sometimes to keep u having fun during your leisure, the same people will talk about the fact that you are sad and not trying to cheer up basically what ever is it you do people will still talk and think so just gèt something good that makes you happy and do it.

If gambling is your hobby and it actually hurts no one it's not a problem if you continue with your hubby and still happen to have fun with it not minding what people think or say but if it turns out your hubby is causing problem to others then look for a way to possibly adjust so you don't get to make people suffer as a result of your hubby.

[bangjoe]

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So whatever the reason, I don't care about other people's comments, but if my friend reprimands me or comments on what I do, whether it's gambling, I will respond why is that? because they know me and my family. So I'm maybe will explain that my gambling is healthy gambling, sometimes my friend is just worried if we gamble to the point of becoming addicted, therefore usually good friends always remind us not to go beyond the limits.

that's right, it's our right to gamble or not, so we don't need to think too much about what other people think about our gambling, because it's our money, it's us who lose or win, so why do we need to care about what other people think? so instead of worrying about what other people think of us, it's better for us to focus on what we do and not gamble excessively, because that is the most important thing compared to thinking about other people's opinions.

Sometimes we need to look at who is talking and what the person is talking about, if it is an advice then you need to think about the advice even if the delivery is done calmly and peacefully, because sometimes people convey their opinions to provoke our emotions, then see whether the advice or opinion can be justified or not by yourself regarding the impact if we do not follow what he is talking about, you need to have a very good logic in accepting an opinion both good and bad.

Don't be too apathetic towards others, because it can become a stone in yourself and your environment becomes bad, I think you have to be more mature in listening to opinions, don't look as if you don't care, just listen well and peacefully, whether or not you use the opinions of others, it comes back to you, the important thing is that we can accept the opinions of others so that your environmental situation is also good.

[bitzizzix]

that's right, it's our right to gamble or not, so we don't need to think too much about what other people think about our gambling, because it's our money, it's us who lose or win, so why do we need to care about what other people think? so instead of worrying about what other people think of us, it's better for us to focus on what we do and not gamble excessively, because that is the most important thing compared to thinking about other people's opinions.

I support this comment, every individual should understand that in life everyone has a choice to make. The fact that one doesn't gamble shouldn't mean that they should judge people who do so, a lot of individuals do generalise things a lot and it's so unfair. The fact that he knows some people who got messed up due to addiction or irresponsible gambling doesn't mean every gambler ain't responsible that's what many individuals fail to understand.

 Well, so far I'm not an addicted or irresponsible gambler, what others think about me gambler is their own problem and not mine, so far I'm gambling responsible and not allowing it to affect others. Gambling is not a bad idea but it's when you don't gamble responsibly that's wrong that's why most of these bookies and online casinos would always advice people to do so which is gambling responsible.

I also don't like judging people who like to gamble because I also don't like being judged when I'm gambling, because gambling is a person's right and they also use their own money to gamble. And whether they are addicted or gamble irresponsibly is their problem, not mine.
And I like to gamble just for fun, which I sometimes do on weekends after feeling tired after five days of work, and my gambling activities are also unknown to many people. And most bookies recommend gambling responsibly because many gamblers play excessively which causes addiction, and the negative side of gambling occurs because of the mistakes of irresponsible gamblers which makes ordinary people think that gambling is not good and even hated.

[junder]

I agree, besides the money you are using in gambling is your own money. The fact that it is your own money, it only means that other people doesn't have the right to think or say/dictate anything about your hobby. Letting them to think whatever they want and didn't give any interest on their opinion is good, we don't need to stress ourselves with other peoples opinion, what we should think is how we become comfortable with our hobbies.

Basically, we should gamble using our own money if we really like gambling, whether we lose or win we will feel it ourselves, if we win then we can enjoy it and if we lose we have to be able to bear it. As long as we can gamble appropriately, don't let us be played by gambling which can put us in big losses and serious problems such as gambling addiction, which of course is not a good thing. It's also a good idea to listen to what other people say if it's advice.

I myself like to gamble but I hide it, even though there are other people talking about gambling, I just keep my mouth shut and don't open the conversation about the gambling that I do, unless I use other people's money to gamble, that is a mistake that can have a big impact on us, too. This might happen when we lose self-control by gambling, therefore it is very important to be able to control ourselves from the gambling we do. Even though there are people who often say "don't listen to what other people say" it doesn't really have to be done, because if it's advice then there's no harm in listening to it and considering it.

[ethereumhunter]

I also don't like judging people who like to gamble because I also don't like being judged when I'm gambling, because gambling is a person's right and they also use their own money to gamble. And whether they are addicted or gamble irresponsibly is their problem, not mine.
And I like to gamble just for fun, which I sometimes do on weekends after feeling tired after five days of work, and my gambling activities are also unknown to many people. And most bookies recommend gambling responsibly because many gamblers play excessively which causes addiction, and the negative side of gambling occurs because of the mistakes of irresponsible gamblers which makes ordinary people think that gambling is not good and even hated.

That's good for you because we don't wants to interfere other people lives and vice versa and that will be up to them. They must responsible of what they doing and if they can't take care of themselves while they playing gambling, that will gives an impact to them. Playing gambling will be people decision but they must have self control to avoids the big lose that can happens to them. They must responsible with their gambling activity and not lets them gets deeper in gambling because gambling is just for fun in their free time. It's better we playing gambling in our free time and with moderation because gambling can tempts us gets deeper without we realizes that we already playing gambling longer than we thinks. If we can responsible with our gambling activity, we don't have to listen other people say because they don't knows what we do and they only see from the outside. They can be wrong saying that we playing gambling excessively because they don't knows what we do while playing gambling. So lets, them like that while we can playing gambling moderately.

[Hirose UK]

If it was someone else I would ignore it, why is it like that? because they don't know me in depth and don't know where I live so just relax even though other people will comment badly even though I'm gambling. But I always anticipate this by not gambling in public places, especially when we're in crowded places and there's not much difference in seating too far from other people because I feel uncomfortable if other people see my activities whether I'm chatting or playing on social media or even gambling because they could peek or want to know what we want to do. Because I also don't like peeking at other people's cell phones because cell phones are personal.

So whatever the reason, I don't care about other people's comments, but if my friend reprimands me or comments on what I do, whether it's gambling, I will respond why is that? because they know me and my family. So I'm maybe will explain that my gambling is healthy gambling, sometimes my friend is just worried if we gamble to the point of becoming addicted, therefore usually good friends always remind us not to go beyond the limits.

Yes, that true, and whatever other people say will not benefit us, on the other hand, by carrying out gambling activities we also don't make other people feel loss, so if what we do is seen as bad then just let it go.
Maybe they say some things out of concern and also because they don't want us to experience bad things, but basically we gamble with our own will and there is no coercion from anyone, whether it loss or gain, only we ourselves feel it.
Sometimes they don't know what we can actually get from gambling, as we just have fun and are looking for entertainment, but most people think gambling is bad activity.

It just that that different thing, if they are friends or close people who we really trust, there will always be reason for our own good, but unfortunately finding people like this is very difficult.
There have been several incidents in group where friends gave each other support to do more in gambling, but when defeat came they all fell silent.

[livingfree]

One thing to say with those people that are trying to distract us while we do our own thing, mind their own business.

I don't care a thing they say, am I gambling with their money? am I using their time? No, they don't and that's why I don't care about them and whatever they say upon looking at my activities whether on my laptop or smartphone.

We've got our own lives to deal with and it's too short to be thinking of the welfare of other's activities.

One thing about life is that whatever you do people will always complain and when you understand this when you see people trying talk things about your hobby it won't bother you because already you know people are good to talk about things that are not their business.  Since it is always like this, to avoid people talking about what you do it will be best to be reserved in all you do because what people don't know about you they can't talk about it.

For me I think gambling is something that people don't even need to have to know your involvement with because it has no business with people knowing about it, it is just for you to play and wait for the outcome of it which people don't even need to know.

There is a wrong impression about gambling and that's why if someone sees us gamble, they'd always something to say about it.

But upon the conversation starts from them, as I've said it's best to avoid and ignore them because you don't meddle with anything that they do. So, it's best for them to not cause any talks especially about their thoughts about seeing someone gambling.

It's just upon their peripheral vision and that's why they seems to be obliged telling their opinions although you don't need them.