Understanding the Impact of Social Media in Gambling.

[danherbias07]

Even they know the target audience, how they can able to limit kids that watching to their videos? no way.

This problem is caused by money.

The parents didn't learn parenting skills, so they don't know whether they should allow their kids to use cellphone or not. Even they know it's not good to let their kids to use cellphone, they can't really control their kids due to lack of time. Lack of time caused by they need to work in order to earn money.

You are absolutely correct and this is the one thing are really causing why most kids misbehave because parents don't really have time for their kids instead they will go and employ a housemaid, who will be taking care of the kids and their for and give them whatever thing they want. They think life is all about money meanwhile there is a lot to it, knowing who your kids are, is very very crucial, having time for them makes them draw more close to our parents and the more you will keep providing and neglecting them, the more we are exposing our kids outside, which they might learn bad behavior that will affect all of us.

Honestly, I am actually guilty when it comes to letting my kids use their cellphones for a long time. Just recently, my kids are going to have their exams and that's when I disciplined him to never use a cellphone for a week. I am just glad that my kid respects me and follows my orders. I told him properly that he could use it again once the exams were done and I would even buy him a new one if he passed the exam and had good grades. I think that also helped to boost his confidence and will to study harder.

Upon checking the phone he is using, it's mostly games that are online but I still check those games if there are gambling advertisements inside. We cannot be sure because some developers are injecting those ads into their games for profit. We should always be aware of what they will do especially if they have the freedom to use the internet.

[bakasabo]

younger peeps are in the age of being curious in everything, like they really want to try new things that they see in social media even if there's a disclaimer that some contents are not suitable for their age that's why they need more guidance because they are prone in any bad thing that may happen. Influencers usually put a disclaimers in their contents that's why we cannot blame them because they just do it for the sake of money, however other influencers are intentionally display their content to catch up some viewers for their engagements.

Many kids have gone wayward in the mordem times due to social media, in some medias advertiding +18 rated contents have become very normal and most kids are currently gettng exposed to those contents including gambling as well since most gambling platforms use them or pay influencers to advertise their business. Well i don't blame those influencers though since they're doing their job.

 It is the duty of those social media platforms to create policies that would restrict underaged people from creating an accounts with their platforms, you don't expect influencers not to do their jobs because their are underaged kids they’re not even aware of using the platforms and viewing their contents, the least they could do is advise underaged people from gambling and the effect it has on them.

And know why all this happens? Because parents sit in social media all the time in front of them. We can no blame influencers nor anybody for what kids do, as parents are the only one who are responsible.

I see you have said that its social media duty to create some platform restrictions. Actually there is today YouTube and YouTube kids where you dont get adult ads. But YouTube can not decide what your kid will look and what is acceptable or not. It will show popular average. In general, everything that is about kids - it is up to parents; its is their duty to check, monitor, restrict and teach.

[ethereumhunter]

Even they know the target audience, how they can able to limit kids that watching to their videos? no way.

This problem is caused by money.

The parents didn't learn parenting skills, so they don't know whether they should allow their kids to use cellphone or not. Even they know it's not good to let their kids to use cellphone, they can't really control their kids due to lack of time. Lack of time caused by they need to work in order to earn money.

You are absolutely correct and this is the one thing are really causing why most kids misbehave because parents don't really have time for their kids instead they will go and employ a housemaid, who will be taking care of the kids and their for and give them whatever thing they want. They think life is all about money meanwhile there is a lot to it, knowing who your kids are, is very very crucial, having time for them makes them draw more close to our parents and the more you will keep providing and neglecting them, the more we are exposing our kids outside, which they might learn bad behavior that will affect all of us.

That's makes their children doing something bad following with what they watch on social media and when they watch someone playing gambling, they thinks that's cool wins much money so they will start to follow the influencer without thinks that will effect to their lives. Parents will not thinks about how their children can filter whatever they watch from social media because they are busy with their job and only gives many things to their children without guiding them. They can't educate, takes care, or guide their children because they don't have much time to interact with their children and only thinks that money will solve their problem. It's not good for children and that can follows until they grow up and will thinks that the same thing as parents which money will solve the problem.

[justdimin]

You are absolutely correct and this is the one thing are really causing why most kids misbehave because parents don't really have time for their kids instead they will go and employ a housemaid, who will be taking care of the kids and their for and give them whatever thing they want. They think life is all about money meanwhile there is a lot to it, knowing who your kids are, is very very crucial, having time for them makes them draw more close to our parents and the more you will keep providing and neglecting them, the more we are exposing our kids outside, which they might learn bad behavior that will affect all of us.

That's makes their children doing something bad following with what they watch on social media and when they watch someone playing gambling, they thinks that's cool wins much money so they will start to follow the influencer without thinks that will effect to their lives. Parents will not thinks about how their children can filter whatever they watch from social media because they are busy with their job and only gives many things to their children without guiding them. They can't educate, takes care, or guide their children because they don't have much time to interact with their children and only thinks that money will solve their problem. It's not good for children and that can follows until they grow up and will thinks that the same thing as parents which money will solve the problem.

To be fair you can't just ban children from social media, not because of any moral reasons or parenting reasons but because as a kid who grew up with strict parents I can tell you that no matter how much you "ban" something, not only it makes it even more enticing to do it, but it also means that you are not going to stop them and they will find a way.

There are few things my parents did not protected me from, like for example drinking, they never told me not to drink, and my dad liked to drink on the weekends as a relaxing method, while they did protected me from spending too much time on the computer or playing games all day etc etc. You know what happened? I rarely ever drink, like maybe few times a year at most, some years probably zero, and yet I keep playing games on my pc all day whenever I get a chance.

[South Park]

To be fair you can't just ban children from social media, not because of any moral reasons or parenting reasons but because as a kid who grew up with strict parents I can tell you that no matter how much you "ban" something, not only it makes it even more enticing to do it, but it also means that you are not going to stop them and they will find a way.

There are few things my parents did not protected me from, like for example drinking, they never told me not to drink, and my dad liked to drink on the weekends as a relaxing method, while they did protected me from spending too much time on the computer or playing games all day etc etc. You know what happened? I rarely ever drink, like maybe few times a year at most, some years probably zero, and yet I keep playing games on my pc all day whenever I get a chance.

This is why I have always thought that kids and teens have a responsibility to share as well, the access to anything that we may want has become easier than ever during the last decades and this tendency will do nothing else but to get worse, so parents cannot be held completely responsible when their children misbehave, because at the end the ones that will suffer the negative consequences of their actions are the children themselves, so they need to do their part too if they do not want to end up with an addiction problem at such an early age.

[Awaklara]

This is why I have always thought that kids and teens have a responsibility to share as well, the access to anything that we may want has become easier than ever during the last decades and this tendency will do nothing else but to get worse, so parents cannot be held completely responsible when their children misbehave, because at the end the ones that will suffer the negative consequences of their actions are the children themselves, so they need to do their part too if they do not want to end up with an addiction problem at such an early age.

if you are still a child, then bad deeds must be borne by their parents. and that can be considered the fault of parents who are negligent in educating their children.
It is indeed very difficult to supervise the bad things that children do. there is a tendency for children not to open up to their parents. but if you are a parent I think when you see something unusual about your child, you will notice it. and the role of parents is important to guide in this matter.
At least you have to know what your child does when playing and who they play with. The problem is that it is difficult for us to control our children in the world of social media.

[Findingnemo]

younger peeps are in the age of being curious in everything, like they really want to try new things that they see in social media even if there's a disclaimer that some contents are not suitable for their age that's why they need more guidance because they are prone in any bad thing that may happen. Influencers usually put a disclaimers in their contents that's why we cannot blame them because they just do it for the sake of money, however other influencers are intentionally display their content to catch up some viewers for their engagements.

Many kids have gone wayward in the mordem times due to social media, in some medias advertiding +18 rated contents have become very normal and most kids are currently gettng exposed to those contents including gambling as well since most gambling platforms use them or pay influencers to advertise their business. Well i don't blame those influencers though since they're doing their job.

 It is the duty of those social media platforms to create policies that would restrict underaged people from creating an accounts with their platforms, you don't expect influencers not to do their jobs because their are underaged kids they’re not even aware of using the platforms and viewing their contents, the least they could do is advise underaged people from gambling and the effect it has on them.

It's hard to stop people from accessing that anything they wanted to via internet, they simply can create a gmail account it won't even take a minute and all they need to do is enter wrong date of birth so creating strict policies doesn't do anything at all. But what about we can do is to create awareness about gambling and don't keep it as taboo subject anymore and teach kids about why gambling is bad when it's done out of control instead of teaching genders.

[hyudien]

they just don't care about it, because the most important thing for them is how they can make money from the promotion. they don't care who their audience is and who they get the money from or what brand they promote, the important thing is that they can get money and that's enough for them.

if we say they don't care about this, that's not true, but it's just that most of these influencers are stupid, so they don't know what they are doing, promoting something that is very vulnerable to children.

It's true, an influencer or even the host certainly won't care about who is gambling, of course they will only think about profit, what they want is to attract more people to gamble because more and more people are gambling, of course. the more they will profit. even if the audience is gambling with their last money or they are gambling with money from a loan it will not affect the influencer or the host, whatever the situation of the audience they will not care, even if they experience ruin in their lives, the influencer and the host will not care.
In my opinion, influencers are certainly not wrong because they only carry out what their superiors tell them to do, even if what children see or do is none of their business. because the important thing is that they will get benefits from every player. After all, the influencer and the host certainly don't force them to continue gambling until they lose a lot of money. Nowadays, the majority of people are attached to the internet and social media and that can make them easily interested in gambling and gambling.

[piebeyb]

I think not all influencers care about that, usually what they think about is how to make money when many of their followers gamble through their affiliate links, but not all influencers are like that, there are also those who warn minors not to try gambling because it is very It's risky, I've seen influencers like that, but it comes back to the audience and as parents of course we know how to limit what our children watch, at least make settings on their cellphones not to access anything related to gambling.

At this time we cannot completely limit it, that's why as parents we have to maintain limits on what our children have access to, returning again to the role of parents in looking after their children, the point is to explain that what they watch is not all pleasant. and not a good example, especially gambling because there are many risks in it so it must be kept away from children, at least it doesn't affect their minds, that's why I always stay away from anything related to gambling advertisements from my child's cellphone because I'm worried he will learn about it without good control. .

[Fredomago]

they just don't care about it, because the most important thing for them is how they can make money from the promotion. they don't care who their audience is and who they get the money from or what brand they promote, the important thing is that they can get money and that's enough for them.

if we say they don't care about this, that's not true, but it's just that most of these influencers are stupid, so they don't know what they are doing, promoting something that is very vulnerable to children.

It's true, an influencer or even the host certainly won't care about who is gambling, of course they will only think about profit, what they want is to attract more people to gamble because more and more people are gambling, of course. the more they will profit. even if the audience is gambling with their last money or they are gambling with money from a loan it will not affect the influencer or the host, whatever the situation of the audience they will not care, even if they experience ruin in their lives, the influencer and the host will not care.
In my opinion, influencers are certainly not wrong because they only carry out what their superiors tell them to do, even if what children see or do is none of their business. because the important thing is that they will get benefits from every player. After all, the influencer and the host certainly don't force them to continue gambling until they lose a lot of money. Nowadays, the majority of people are attached to the internet and social media and that can make them easily interested in gambling and gambling.

Logically right, influencers are only after the money, they will create content that seems it easy to win against the house having a collab most of the time from the casino owners and make it looks real, those influencers easily earn the attentions of those viewers who at first follow them from a great content that they've made.

Eventually when offers comes up, those influencers who at first have a decent content starts to bring gambling from their original content, making it as their main content.

They will do everything to bring more gamblers and like what you said, the more gambler the better compensation that they will going to recieved.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

Many kids have gone wayward in the mordem times due to social media, in some medias advertiding +18 rated contents have become very normal and most kids are currently gettng exposed to those contents including gambling as well since most gambling platforms use them or pay influencers to advertise their business. Well i don't blame those influencers though since they're doing their job.

So if I may ask, who is to be blame then, is it parents (i.e for exposing these kids have access to Internet connection?), or the government (i.e for neglecting implimenting policies to regulate this?), or the Social media CEO's (i.e for allowing such contents on their platforms?) or the kids themselves for allowing influencers influence their decision and actions?. Who is to be blame then? Because for me, training up a child has never been an individual task, but a collective responsibility of both parents, the society and government for providing favorable environment for learning.

It is the duty of those social media platforms to create policies that would restrict underaged people from creating an accounts with their platforms, you don't expect influencers not to do their jobs because their are underaged kids

So how can such prevention be implemented, or do social media platforms need to start organizing a physical registration screening? Because inasmuch as it's online registration, there will always be chances kids bypassing such protocol. 

[hahay]

A lot of social media influencers especially vloggers and YouTubers are promoting gambling usually at the end of their vlogs or videos.
I could see a huge contribution and spread of information that they made especially during this time where the majority are using smartphones already. In fact, we've been seeing a massive increase in gamblers and online gambling sites. But how this could affect the mindset of the kids when they are also seeing these ads/promotions from the social media influencers they followed? I could be wrong but this has a mental effect on them and at a very young age, they are exposed to gambling already which is supposedly not the right time.

I think these influencers must know their target audience before accepting the offer or should not be included in their vlogs or videos?

The point is, when everything is easily accessible then of course, anything will be easy to do including gambling and probably many other things that have basically affected children. It's unfortunate indeed, but whatever the government does, at least it won't be entirely successful because after all, if they have become addicted and continue to want to try it then of course they will also be able to make efforts to be able to do so. So yes, in this case it is indeed appropriate for influencers to be able to make good considerations, and not only about the benefits that will be obtained, but they also (the influencers) must be able to consider the impacts that will be caused as well. So yes, the point is to be able to control yourself and not be greedy to accept and or do it just because you get a big profit.

[South Park]

This is why I have always thought that kids and teens have a responsibility to share as well, the access to anything that we may want has become easier than ever during the last decades and this tendency will do nothing else but to get worse, so parents cannot be held completely responsible when their children misbehave, because at the end the ones that will suffer the negative consequences of their actions are the children themselves, so they need to do their part too if they do not want to end up with an addiction problem at such an early age.

if you are still a child, then bad deeds must be borne by their parents. and that can be considered the fault of parents who are negligent in educating their children.
It is indeed very difficult to supervise the bad things that children do. there is a tendency for children not to open up to their parents. but if you are a parent I think when you see something unusual about your child, you will notice it. and the role of parents is important to guide in this matter.
At least you have to know what your child does when playing and who they play with. The problem is that it is difficult for us to control our children in the world of social media.

And I disagree, a parent could do everything right, like setting parental controls on the electronic devices of their children, spend time with them, and warn them about the dangers of specific behaviors, and if the kid still engage on those behaviors then there is nothing the parents can do, this is very similar to the experiences many of the parents of addicted teenagers go through, in which their parenting is questioned and a great deal of them did everything to prevent that situation to happen and it still happened anyway.

[Bravut]

This is why I have always thought that kids and teens have a responsibility to share as well, the access to anything that we may want has become easier than ever during the last decades and this tendency will do nothing else but to get worse, so parents cannot be held completely responsible when their children misbehave, because at the end the ones that will suffer the negative consequences of their actions are the children themselves, so they need to do their part too if they do not want to end up with an addiction problem at such an early age.

if you are still a child, then bad deeds must be borne by their parents. and that can be considered the fault of parents who are negligent in educating their children.
It is indeed very difficult to supervise the bad things that children do. there is a tendency for children not to open up to their parents. but if you are a parent I think when you see something unusual about your child, you will notice it. and the role of parents is important to guide in this matter.
At least you have to know what your child does when playing and who they play with. The problem is that it is difficult for us to control our children in the world of social media.

And I disagree, a parent could do everything right, like setting parental controls on the electronic devices of their children, spend time with them, and warn them about the dangers of specific behaviors, and if the kid still engage on those behaviors then there is nothing the parents can do, this is very similar to the experiences many of the parents of addicted teenagers go through, in which their parenting is questioned and a great deal of them did everything to prevent that situation to happen and it still happened anyway.

Fact. There is a saying; "A child that will misbehave will still misbehave", no doubt but this is to some extent as many with the right parental training follow the path set for them. This is also applicable to many of us, at one point in our lives we deliberately violated some rules out of curiosity to find out some stuffs that our parents did not want us to know.
So I will say many of them act out of curiosity and end up not coming back, in essence we all need to try our best because it getting out of hand especially social media posing more increasing on every body with enticing incentives which ain't true.

[South Park]

And I disagree, a parent could do everything right, like setting parental controls on the electronic devices of their children, spend time with them, and warn them about the dangers of specific behaviors, and if the kid still engage on those behaviors then there is nothing the parents can do, this is very similar to the experiences many of the parents of addicted teenagers go through, in which their parenting is questioned and a great deal of them did everything to prevent that situation to happen and it still happened anyway.

Fact. There is a saying; "A child that will misbehave will still misbehave", no doubt but this is to some extent as many with the right parental training follow the path set for them. This is also applicable to many of us, at one point in our lives we deliberately violated some rules out of curiosity to find out some stuffs that our parents did not want us to know.
So I will say many of them act out of curiosity and end up not coming back, in essence we all need to try our best because it getting out of hand especially social media posing more increasing on every body with enticing incentives which ain't true.

Exactly, it is as if people forget what kind of behavior they had when they were young, at such time your brain is still developing, so even if you know something is wrong and it could affect you negatively, you may still do it because you lack self-control or simply because you want to go against the rules to show your independence, so many teenagers that had everything going on with their lives, end up throwing it away and then the parents are blamed in an unjustified way.

[Doan9269]

And I disagree, a parent could do everything right, like setting parental controls on the electronic devices of their children, spend time with them, and warn them about the dangers of specific behaviors, and if the kid still engage on those behaviors then there is nothing the parents can do, this is very similar to the experiences many of the parents of addicted teenagers go through, in which their parenting is questioned and a great deal of them did everything to prevent that situation to happen and it still happened anyway.

Fact. There is a saying; "A child that will misbehave will still misbehave", no doubt but this is to some extent as many with the right parental training follow the path set for them. This is also applicable to many of us, at one point in our lives we deliberately violated some rules out of curiosity to find out some stuffs that our parents did not want us to know.
So I will say many of them act out of curiosity and end up not coming back, in essence we all need to try our best because it getting out of hand especially social media posing more increasing on every body with enticing incentives which ain't true.

Exactly, it is as if people forget what kind of behavior they had when they were young, at such time your brain is still developing, so even if you know something is wrong and it could affect you negatively, you may still do it because you lack self-control or simply because you want to go against the rules to show your independence, so many teenagers that had everything going on with their lives, end up throwing it away and then the parents are blamed in an unjustified way.

Children will not say that they will not misbehave, it is for their are not to allow them exposed to some certain things right from their early stage, we have the right to influence the desired change we want to see happen in their lives, social media has a lot on impact on the society and the children we gave birth to in the community, all we must ensure to do is in having a deliberate intentions over the influence of what they receives from the society.

[0t3p0t]

younger peeps are in the age of being curious in everything, like they really want to try new things that they see in social media even if there's a disclaimer that some contents are not suitable for their age that's why they need more guidance because they are prone in any bad thing that may happen. Influencers usually put a disclaimers in their contents that's why we cannot blame them because they just do it for the sake of money, however other influencers are intentionally display their content to catch up some viewers for their engagements.

Many kids have gone wayward in the mordem times due to social media, in some medias advertiding +18 rated contents have become very normal and most kids are currently gettng exposed to those contents including gambling as well since most gambling platforms use them or pay influencers to advertise their business. Well i don't blame those influencers though since they're doing their job.

 It is the duty of those social media platforms to create policies that would restrict underaged people from creating an accounts with their platforms, you don't expect influencers not to do their jobs because their are underaged kids they’re not even aware of using the platforms and viewing their contents, the least they could do is advise underaged people from gambling and the effect it has on them.

It's hard to stop people from accessing that anything they wanted to via internet, they simply can create a gmail account it won't even take a minute and all they need to do is enter wrong date of birth so creating strict policies doesn't do anything at all. But what about we can do is to create awareness about gambling and don't keep it as taboo subject anymore and teach kids about why gambling is bad when it's done out of control instead of teaching genders.

Yeah to be honest gambling is like sex as we need to educate all kind of people to be aware of it's consequences if done wrong. Do you agree with me on this? Internet is the source of everything no doubt about that with these two examples so we badly need knowledge to perfectly deal with things that is inevitable to happen along the way.

[Amphenomenon]

And I disagree, a parent could do everything right, like setting parental controls on the electronic devices of their children, spend time with them, and warn them about the dangers of specific behaviors, and if the kid still engage on those behaviors then there is nothing the parents can do, this is very similar to the experiences many of the parents of addicted teenagers go through, in which their parenting is questioned and a great deal of them did everything to prevent that situation to happen and it still happened anyway.

Fact. There is a saying; "A child that will misbehave will still misbehave", no doubt but this is to some extent as many with the right parental training follow the path set for them. This is also applicable to many of us, at one point in our lives we deliberately violated some rules out of curiosity to find out some stuffs that our parents did not want us to know.
So I will say many of them act out of curiosity and end up not coming back, in essence we all need to try our best because it getting out of hand especially social media posing more increasing on every body with enticing incentives which ain't true.

Exactly, it is as if people forget what kind of behavior they had when they were young, at such time your brain is still developing, so even if you know something is wrong and it could affect you negatively, you may still do it because you lack self-control or simply because you want to go against the rules to show your independence, so many teenagers that had everything going on with their lives, end up throwing it away and then the parents are blamed in an unjustified way.

Children will not say that they will not misbehave, it is for their are not to allow them exposed to some certain things right from their early stage, we have the right to influence the desired change we want to see happen in their lives, social media has a lot on impact on the society and the children we gave birth to in the community, all we must ensure to do is in having a deliberate intentions over the influence of what they receives from the society.

People including children are mainly influenced by those they associate with and the internet has made it even more expanding especially with social media whereas people and children are influenced by those they follow and the content they watched.

In some countries, it will be much easier for underage to be restricted in gambling whereas in some this is not actually the case, that's some might easily get access to a Mastercard or might be knowledgeable to use cryptocurrencies to gamble online while some might not face any issues going to a gambling shop to place bet which is more common in my country.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

That is the more reason why gambling shouldn't be hidden from the young ones and most people basically practice anything they see online more especially when they come from celebrities or influencers that is the reason why people need to educate their children with proper knowledge of the things happening around them so that when they hear it outside, they won't be misled or misinformed.

Yes it's very important to let your children know all this information from you before getting it outside either from friends or read them by social media, for those parents who in one way or the other gambles and most of them save it keeps their betting slip's any how, hidden information like this put the children into very high risk as they must be curious to know about the betting or gambling outside your knowledge that may mislead them.

[danherbias07]

Exactly, it is as if people forget what kind of behavior they had when they were young, at such time your brain is still developing, so even if you know something is wrong and it could affect you negatively, you may still do it because you lack self-control or simply because you want to go against the rules to show your independence, so many teenagers that had everything going on with their lives, end up throwing it away and then the parents are blamed in an unjustified way.

I guess you are right.
Teenagers specifically tend to misbehave because they want to be independent and I think at some point in my life I had been in that position too. Misbehaving because I want to prove I can live by myself and I don't need my parents.
But all of that went south and that was when I came back and said how sorry I am. Our parents will always love us because they will still welcome us with open arms but when you are in the same position as your parent, as much as possible that won't happen to them.
They now learn a lot of new things thanks to social media, we didn't have that kind of perk before as all we know is to play outside and be a kid. Today's era is different, they are mostly in front of their phones watching their favorite Youtubers which sometimes could be harmful as some of them are putting gambling ads after their videos.