Understanding the Impact of Social Media in Gambling.

[Odohu]

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.

You are so right. I remember vividly how we intentionally go against the norm to do awkward things just for the experience. Sometimes when I reminisce on my childhood, I will laugh and wonder what I was think to do some of the things I did. Well gambling was not one of those things though because I started gambling intentionally without any pressure from anyone.... just dream game that I won brought me into gambling. The only thing I did not try was smoking even though it was fashionable among kids then.

I don't know if this youthful exuberance is the reason there is growing number of underage gambler. It could be but there is no data to back it up. With the impact of social media, things should even be way worse than it was during my time as a kid. Now many wrong things are seen as trend with many people keying into them.

[rachael9385]

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.

When a child starts hiding his bets slip it means that it's either the parents of the children are against what the child is doing, so the best thing one should do as a parent is never to give a child a second thought of gamble until the child is up to the age he can gamble. Why 18+ years is permitted to gamble is because at that age they could know what to do and what not to do.

[nara1892]

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.

Yes, maybe that's good, but I don't think it's impossible that in the end a child could try something that is prohibited by adults, especially their parents, because after all, children are those who still have a fairly unstable mindset and also have a high enough level of curiosity within themselves that it is possible that in the end they will be able to try something that is prohibited by adults on the basis of curiosity. On the other hand, I am sure that a child is not too motivated by something that can make money such as winning at gambling because for a child at that age it is more their priority to play or try various things that make them curious, meaning there is little chance for a child to think about making gambling as a place to earn.

But on the other hand, the problem of telling them from an early age about education that should be avoided, in my opinion, does not mean it is impossible that they could try it. So in my opinion it is better not to tell them about anything related to gambling, even if for example the information contains a prohibition for good, because the object is that they are small children whose thinking patterns are still unstable and have quite high curiosity, and besides that, if you really Knowing that now the circulation of gambling can occur anywhere, such as from environmental factors and online media, this clearly means that you must be more able to protect and limit your child from socializing too much and also limiting the use of internet media.

[Hatchy]

The truth about this matter is that, ones any content has been uploaded to the Internet, it can be assessed by anyone, regardless of their age. Most times, for young ones, they end up finding their way around these contents even when there is a restriction placed to prevent them from accessing it. Now talking of the social media advertising gambling, I don't think it might be possible for them to actually focus on their target audience that much. Yes we should remember they have to spread out their promotion to get to a wider range so they might not be willing to add some restrictions. They won't even be aware who access their site except during kyc or other verifications. If a child is well guide by his parents, maybe there might be a limit to their visit off contents that is above their age like gambling.

[Fredomago]

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.

When a child starts hiding his bets slip it means that it's either the parents of the children are against what the child is doing, so the best thing one should do as a parent is never to give a child a second thought of gamble until the child is up to the age he can gamble. Why 18+ years is permitted to gamble is because at that age they could know what to do and what not to do.

At that age they held responsible from their actions but as a parent we still need to continue guiding them especially if they are involved into gambling,  I think your statement happens with those young minds who are already in this industry those young adults who already have an access to gambling site, they will hide those betslip as they knew their parents or guardians will stop them or will get mad at them, it's best to give a good guidance to those young people as you need to inform them that not all that they are seeing online that being promoted should be followed, gambling is a risky industry that most of the time created problems to an individual who can't handles addiction.

[hyudien]

The truth about this matter is that, ones any content has been uploaded to the Internet, it can be assessed by anyone, regardless of their age. Most times, for young ones, they end up finding their way around these contents even when there is a restriction placed to prevent them from accessing it. Now talking of the social media advertising gambling, I don't think it might be possible for them to actually focus on their target audience that much. Yes we should remember they have to spread out their promotion to get to a wider range so they might not be willing to add some restrictions. They won't even be aware who access their site except during kyc or other verifications. If a child is well guide by his parents, maybe there might be a limit to their visit off contents that is above their age like gambling.

that makes sense, because nowadays they are already familiar with the internet and cellphones where they can always do what they want, especially with things related to games or video games, of course they will do whatever they can to be able to do it. get what they want until finally they can find their own way to achieve what they want. and I think one of them is that all young people definitely have their own cellphones and with that they are no longer strange about VPN applications, which is an application that can make them access something that was previously inaccessible and can be accessed easily, and this is an example that they can find a way out of problems about what they want.
Of course, the casino will not set certain restrictions, with the only requirements being to register, usually an active cellphone number, email and account number. Of course, this is easy to access for everyone who is fluent in operating a cellphone. It's not surprising that many young people are already familiar with gambling because with the development of technology, gambling has also been developed by placing advertisements and it's not just one casino, it could even be said that hundreds or thousands of casinos place advertisements on social media. and I think that even if their parents set limits, there is little chance that they will not gamble because their external environment will influence them, unless they themselves have an awareness of not wanting to do something that is really risky.

[Antotena]

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.

But we are forgetting the important part, I mean look at casino adverts everywhere the kids, you will hardly watch cable TV these days without seeing Football and sports adverts, even on road side they are everywhere and you don't know how to protect kids sometimes but just keep telling them the dangers of gambling and why they should avoid them and ditch their friends who are fund of gambling at younger age, there should be child control from gambling.

Even Google are guilty of this, they personalized user information and gives adverts base on what you do with your phone. Imagine a situation when the kids start enquiry about gambling and all of a sudden they start feeding them with some information with promotional ads they aren't supposed to see, these are the undisclosed situations about gambling and the kids which need to be given proper care and attention. A safe gambling space is a safe future for all the kids.

[Richbased]

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?

We are in a computer age now, when I say computer age am talking about an easy and fast period of life such that information and awareness are spreading rapidly regardless of who is being exposed to them. Literally, in the past there were contents that are restricted to the exposure of children but now social media has made it easy for anybody to get access to things in the Internet be it something that should be known by only adults or not and for me since there is no way we can completely restrict children from getting access to some contents that may affect their reasoning ability so what we need do is only to guide and educate them about those things, tell them the advantages and disadvantages so that they will not be misguided outside.

Social media influencers like the contents creators are mostly the people that gambling companies uses to advertise their sites because they know that most people prefer watching videos and funny contents online now so most of the time they usually advertise gambling casinos and other gambling platforms just to convince their followers and viewers to place bets on those gambling sites and have a chance of winning.

There is no way those influencers or celebrities can know their targets audience since everyone can easily access their contents without any restrictions.

[Ojinga]

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?

with my understanding I think they're also profiting from them and it's also making the social media to be known to the society, the only place they will get effect it's only when if they're taking percentage from their customers. But if they are willing to lose some customers and followers they shouldn't try to take charge from them, but most of the social media now are going too far and they're taking it to the extreme that if you do not have an account or a wallets you can't partake with them. But in the other hand they're also helping to promote gambling to be known to the the global and with that everyone can feel comfortable of playing a bet and to gamble. Because they're making things more easier for the gamblers around the world.

[Lanatsa]

The truth about this matter is that, ones any content has been uploaded to the Internet, it can be assessed by anyone, regardless of their age. Most times, for young ones, they end up finding their way around these contents even when there is a restriction placed to prevent them from accessing it. Now talking of the social media advertising gambling, I don't think it might be possible for them to actually focus on their target audience that much. Yes we should remember they have to spread out their promotion to get to a wider range so they might not be willing to add some restrictions. They won't even be aware who access their site except during kyc or other verifications. If a child is well guide by his parents, maybe there might be a limit to their visit off contents that is above their age like gambling.

that makes sense, because nowadays they are already familiar with the internet and cellphones where they can always do what they want, especially with things related to games or video games, of course they will do whatever they can to be able to do it. get what they want until finally they can find their own way to achieve what they want. and I think one of them is that all young people definitely have their own cellphones and with that they are no longer strange about VPN applications, which is an application that can make them access something that was previously inaccessible and can be accessed easily, and this is an example that they can find a way out of problems about what they want.
Of course, the casino will not set certain restrictions, with the only requirements being to register, usually an active cellphone number, email and account number. Of course, this is easy to access for everyone who is fluent in operating a cellphone. It's not surprising that many young people are already familiar with gambling because with the development of technology, gambling has also been developed by placing advertisements and it's not just one casino, it could even be said that hundreds or thousands of casinos place advertisements on social media. and I think that even if their parents set limits, there is little chance that they will not gamble because their external environment will influence them, unless they themselves have an awareness of not wanting to do something that is really risky.

Some people do really tend to blame out their parents on not to be able to control their kids about gambling dealing on which we know that when it comes in todays accessibility and technology on which everything could really be accessed out without any problems or hiccups on which no matter how strict you would be as a parent, there's no way that you could really be able to filter out and control on what they are seeing or on what they are really that dealing with. This is why you cant really be able to blame up everything into their parents because there are really that children that no matter how you do handle them well or would be that guiding on the right path but they do really end up on the wrong way and there's nothing we can do about it. Distractions and influences could really be seen on every corner.

Just like been said that majority would really be having their own phones on which they could really be able to see everything online and us parents does have our own work for family's needs
and other expenses on which not all the time that we would really be having that kind of monitoring on whatever the things that they are really that dealing with.
This is why it would really be that relevant that explaining to them about on whats gambling and other possibilities about its effects and consequences should be at least be explained to them.

[nimogsm]

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.

because in almost any gambling advertisement they talk about crazy bonuses and how easy it is to win and don’t talk about the consequences that can really happen if you don’t control your hobby.It will be a good bonus if parents understand the principle of gambling and understand its basics and can tell the other side of this industry and its consequences.

[khiholangkang]

The truth about this matter is that, ones any content has been uploaded to the Internet, it can be assessed by anyone, regardless of their age. Most times, for young ones, they end up finding their way around these contents even when there is a restriction placed to prevent them from accessing it. Now talking of the social media advertising gambling, I don't think it might be possible for them to actually focus on their target audience that much. Yes we should remember they have to spread out their promotion to get to a wider range so they might not be willing to add some restrictions. They won't even be aware who access their site except during kyc or other verifications. If a child is well guide by his parents, maybe there might be a limit to their visit off contents that is above their age like gambling.

It is true that those who promote will not know who will access it because it is done in a random algorithm even though they can define the audience but if indeed someone's activity is looking for slots on fb or in any application, advertisements will definitely appear on his social media account, this often happens even high school students I have also seen him watching live streaming of gambling influencers, so I think it is true that the impact of social media is very large and we will never know who it reaches even though it has restrictions, this happens a lot in my neighborhood sir, but sometimes children also create social media accounts using their parents' data.

[iBaba]

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.

I am most of the time curious about children knowing more than they should in social media. The adverse effect of such kind of negative exposure is way beyond your imaginations as most activities over the social media are unfiltered and will largely affect the behavior and mental health of the child.

[adpinbr]

Social media actually have a lot of impact in gambling because the influencers can actually promote your gambling on a high way and it may cause a lot of traffic to the gambling site and any gambling or casino which social media promotes or influencers it is always the top at that point because they believe that for a influencer to talk about this which message is legit and very nice to understand but it might not really be so so that is one of the impacts that I understood because of this social media influencing gambling activities. Well saying much is not really my thing on this but this is the little idea I have concerning it

[Baofeng]

Social media actually have a lot of impact in gambling because the influencers can actually promote your gambling on a high way and it may cause a lot of traffic to the gambling site and any gambling or casino which social media promotes or influencers it is always the top at that point because they believe that for a influencer to talk about this which message is legit and very nice to understand but it might not really be so so that is one of the impacts that I understood because of this social media influencing gambling activities. Well saying much is not really my thing on this but this is the little idea I have concerning it

Yes, because social media now is very different, it has far reaching effect. Anyone from Africa to Asia can be a influencer including gambling itself. We have seen it in the last couple of years with the emergence of the likes of Instagram, Tiktok which is right now is the top social media. And then we have the old school Facebook and Youtube, then that is the perfect formula to reach anyone regardless of age, religion, sex and that is the scary part.

And the number of gamblers and those turning into addicts could grow because of social media. That's why it's really very important to us to really have self control. It's not that bad to play and gamble, but please don't let it take over our lives just because our favorite gambling influencer is betting big and we want to emulate them.

[boty]

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.

because in almost any gambling advertisement they talk about crazy bonuses and how easy it is to win and don’t talk about the consequences that can really happen if you don’t control your hobby.It will be a good bonus if parents understand the principle of gambling and understand its basics and can tell the other side of this industry and its consequences.

I think all gambling advertisements will certainly show the bonuses that can be obtained and also the ease of winning the bets they play and no gambling site will tell them about the consequences they will receive if they cannot control themselves from gambling, of course they will be able to have an impact bad for themselves, when someone understands well the gambling they are playing, of course they will always limit their gambling activities so that they don't experience financial problems or those closest to them.

[Sakanwa]

To me,the impact of social media on gambling is very much than what we see.Since the invention of telephone,or media devices,gambling has taken another shape,we have lived from the era where people gathers at a casino hall all in the name of gambling to the era where you will make use of you phone to gamble at any site of yours.If you want to be an addicted gambler,it is your phone that will turn you into it.
Social media has so many positive and negative influence on the lifes of youth in our society today because everybody wants to make money,and it's only gambling that can give people that quick money, therefore,so many person have become addicted to playing games on their phone,some have lost their lifes in the process because they have lost their money due to gambling,these and many more are what social media have done on gambling.

[Strongkored]

To me,the impact of social media on gambling is very much than what we see.Since the invention of telephone,or media devices,gambling has taken another shape,we have lived from the era where people gathers at a casino hall all in the name of gambling to the era where you will make use of you phone to gamble at any site of yours.If you want to be an addicted gambler,it is your phone that will turn you into it.
Social media has so many positive and negative influence on the lifes of youth in our society today because everybody wants to make money,and it's only gambling that can give people that quick money, therefore,so many person have become addicted to playing games on their phone,some have lost their lifes in the process because they have lost their money due to gambling,these and many more are what social media have done on gambling.

Social Media is like a knife, which will be very useful if used according to its function but also becomes very bad when used not according to its function, so it is not the knife that is wrong and must be destroyed but the person who should understand how to use it so that it is useful.
That's what we should do on social media, and that's also what gambling influencers do, they take advantage of the massive use of social media to influence people to gamble via the links they embed, and it won't be a problem if the people gambling are adults, but if Children who receive this information and gamble will be very detrimental, that's why parents have to supervise their children on social media, we can't blame other people but we are the ones who have to be able to limit ourselves well.

[hyudien]

Some people do really tend to blame out their parents on not to be able to control their kids about gambling dealing on which we know that when it comes in todays accessibility and technology on which everything could really be accessed out without any problems or hiccups on which no matter how strict you would be as a parent, there's no way that you could really be able to filter out and control on what they are seeing or on what they are really that dealing with. This is why you cant really be able to blame up everything into their parents because there are really that children that no matter how you do handle them well or would be that guiding on the right path but they do really end up on the wrong way and there's nothing we can do about it. Distractions and influences could really be seen on every corner.

Just like been said that majority would really be having their own phones on which they could really be able to see everything online and us parents does have our own work for family's needs
and other expenses on which not all the time that we would really be having that kind of monitoring on whatever the things that they are really that dealing with.
This is why it would really be that relevant that explaining to them about on whats gambling and other possibilities about its effects and consequences should be at least be explained to them.

Yes that's right, no matter how strict the prohibitions given by parents cannot filter and control children completely, moreover, of course children have associations outside the home which is one of the things that determines them to choose their associations, but with good parental education, maybe children can distinguish which good and bad things must be done even though their environmental association is said to be negative. In addition, when parents educate their children with strict pressure which is arguably excessive it is not good, because it will make children uncomfortable or maybe they can hide the pressure exerted by their parents so that they still undergo it by force. Indeed, you cannot blame parents completely because they will not be there all day watching their children because of course parents have other activities as well as their children.
With the fact that children are already familiar with online gambling, I think we should be able to open a conversation for them not to get involved with it if they do not have their own income, even when they have their own income, they should not be involved but when they have their own income or even get married then they will make their own choices.

[Jody.Drummer]

because in almost any gambling advertisement they talk about crazy bonuses and how easy it is to win and don’t talk about the consequences that can really happen if you don’t control your hobby.It will be a good bonus if parents understand the principle of gambling and understand its basics and can tell the other side of this industry and its consequences.

I think all gambling advertisements will certainly show the bonuses that can be obtained and also the ease of winning the bets they play and no gambling site will tell them about the consequences they will receive if they cannot control themselves from gambling, of course they will be able to have an impact bad for themselves, when someone understands well the gambling they are playing, of course they will always limit their gambling activities so that they don't experience financial problems or those closest to them.

Exactly and of course I agree with your idea above that the majority of gambling advertisements will certainly show all the things that look tempting, the aim of which is to make many people feel interested and then come in and get involved. Overall, as we know, everyone likes or needs money, while the object of winning in gambling is money and because of this, many people are involved and enter into this activity, where the initial scenario is that they are most likely tempted by something that DJ promises. or shown by the casino through advertising media.

Gambling is a business for casinos and all businesses certainly have the aim of making a profit, and this is the reason why casinos advertise something so tempting which is actually nothing more than a ruse to get people involved without hesitation, but in the end it is like that. We know that the reality is quite the opposite, instead of making money, what happens is that the majority of gamblers lose a lot of money, especially when they don't have a proper understanding of gambling in the sense of only seeing gambling in terms of the chances of winning.