Online gambling increases computer education.

[Assface16678]

Its just one thing, imagine if someone doesnt know how to use computer learn from gambling, its just they can know how to navigate the computer and didn't fully grasp the computer because when they got into gambling or the site they will play in then that's it, there are a lot of way a person could learn to use computer, even without gambling, think of this, you are saying that some people should do gambling in order to learn to uss computer or are you impliying that it is one of the benefits of gambling? I think not and I disagree, because computer knowledge can be easily taught. and if someone get addicted in gambling then what is the ise of learning to use computer? Unless that gambler will do other things aside from playing gambling, in that way that person could discover a lot of things and maybe one of those can help to earn money.

[l3pox]

You can take the positive sides of learning to gamble like learning more about computer and even math, probability, game theory, risk management if the person really dedicates on studying it

But if you put it in a balance. Do you think the positive impact of it will be bigger than the negative?

[Doan9269]

Each time I visit some physical betting shop in my country, I usually observe how some elderly people make use of computers. I live in a country where most people 55 years and above don't have basic computer education. Many of them cannot use the mouse, keyboard, or other parts of the computer. This might be because most of them have not been exposed to computer education.

However, the introduction of online betting has forced most gamblers in my country to learn how to use the computer. It is now common to see some elderly people using the mouse and keyboard effectively. Most of them have never attended any computer education class but learned through observation. Others might have gone through some level of training from family or friends. I am sure many of them wouldn't have learned anything about the computer if not for online gambling. What are your thoughts?

By the virtue of profession, many of us were able to developed one or two skills and also thought about increasing in knowledge in other for us to be able to fit in the criteria needed to have and maintain a particular job, this is normal and common among the people, same also as we have already seen with the increasing rate for more exposure of the people both old and young in computer literacy with the introduction of online gambling, definitely we can say that it has helped a lot of people gain the required exposure from thos aspect and on many others, some earned a living after acquiring the required skills and technical knowledge on how to operate on a physical gambling platform, together with many other benefits this has brought.

[Antotena]

Each time I visit some physical betting shop in my country, I usually observe how some elderly people make use of computers. I live in a country where most people 55 years and above don't have basic computer education. Many of them cannot use the mouse, keyboard, or other parts of the computer. This might be because most of them have not been exposed to computer education.

I'm just wondering what a 55 years old would be doing in casino when, but nevertheless I'm not sure there is something special to learn in computer through online gambling. Most of the time, casino games are pre-installed software where customers will just login and place his money and bets and then cashout if there is any win. It's not like they will allow you to make use of the computer for anything special or do something you want.

However, the introduction of online betting has forced most gamblers in my country to learn how to use the computer. It is now common to see some elderly people using the mouse and keyboard effectively. Most of them have never attended any computer education class but learned through observation. Others might have gone through some level of training from family or friends. I am sure many of them wouldn't have learned anything about the computer if not for online gambling. What are your thoughts?

Maybe exposure for people who don't understand how computer works, online gambling will help a little but if it's from a mobile device, I think it would have been better and morr friendly. It will be simple for people to gamble and you know the casino aren't after what people can use to gamble but how it will be easy for the customers to gamble and put money into their games, the priority should be easiness and I think personal phone is okay in this situation.

[cabron]

From which country is this? 

Thats odd. Old folks are more interested in using phones as it has more use for them like calling their sons and daughters and at the same time social media.
From what I noticed, phones are cheaper than computers. With just $100, you already have the fastest way to learn how to gamble online, you don't even have to stay in one place, you can commute somewhere and still bet.

[Mahanton]

From which country is this? 

Thats odd. Old folks are more interested in using phones as it has more use for them like calling their sons and daughters and at the same time social media.
From what I noticed, phones are cheaper than computers. With just $100, you already have the fastest way to learn how to gamble online, you don't even have to stay in one place, you can commute somewhere and still bet.

Yes, it would really be that something that gives out that kind of question considering that phones are cheap and it would be unlikely that old people will really be going on sitting in front of PC rather than on playing on mobile phone on which this is much more accessible and really that handy, not unless if you do really have that willing to play on a pc because of different user experience which is different on mobile and this is why there are really people who are really that selecting on something on which they are really that comfortable on dealing with. For those oldies who do want to play gambling then yes they could ask out their grandchildren or someone whose inside the family on assisting on how it should be done. Just like the rest been saying that this isnt really that actually hard on which we know that basic computer operations could really be easily learnt and could be easily be told on someone.

Computer education isnt really just that limited on gambling but also in other means like social media, streaming and other things that you could possible be able to deal with.
Someones interest would really be something that leads up on where you would really be going.

[Z_MBFM]

Each time I visit some physical betting shop in my country, I usually observe how some elderly people make use of computers. I live in a country where most people 55 years and above don't have basic computer education. Many of them cannot use the mouse, keyboard, or other parts of the computer. This might be because most of them have not been exposed to computer education.

However, the introduction of online betting has forced most gamblers in my country to learn how to use the computer. It is now common to see some elderly people using the mouse and keyboard effectively. Most of them have never attended any computer education class but learned through observation. Others might have gone through some level of training from family or friends. I am sure many of them wouldn't have learned anything about the computer if not for online gambling. What are your thoughts?

They enjoy gambling so they happily learn how to operate computers for entertainment. This time they don't even realize how they are bringing the computer into their own universe. Their main focus is on gambling so they don't feel the pain of learning how to operate a computer.  However, gambling is not a good thing. Gambling is a bad addiction so one should not spend long time here. Operating a computer is a very easy task for people in today's age. But it might be a bit difficult for older people, it's not a problem. The problem is that they become serious about gambling which can cause them huge financial losses

[panjul07]

It can be true but of course it may different from 1 gambler to other gamblers because not old people want to learn to use computer these days.
They are more familiar with mobile phone and I believe most online casinos can be accessed by mobile phone so I think they prefer to use mobile phone than computer in order to gamble in online casino.
One reason is that it is simpler than using computer and they can play anywhere anytime.
However if the main effect of gambling is just about using computer practically (turning on/off, using mouse, and open browser) I dont think it can be said as computer education, maybe the right sentence is "increases the usage of computer".

[GideonGono]

This just show that if they really want to, they would learn how to do things just to enjoy it or continue what they want.
For me being old isn't a restriction in technology, everyone could learn how to use it if they want to, there would always be someone who would be willing to guide them if they ask.

[Wiwo]

Those elderly people are not having any technical knowledge of the computer by gambling,  all that they do with computer is just to select games that they want to bet in, and anything aside from that they are not allowed.

In some places they only point at the games the want to book without having access to even the mouse, or keyboard so for sure they basic knowledge is still zero if gambling is what the rely on to learn computer.

[Roseline492]

Each time I visit some physical betting shop in my country, I usually observe how some elderly people make use of computers. I live in a country where most people 55 years and above don't have basic computer education. Many of them cannot use the mouse, keyboard, or other parts of the computer. This might be because most of them have not been exposed to computer education.

However, the introduction of online betting has forced most gamblers in my country to learn how to use the computer. It is now common to see some elderly people using the mouse and keyboard effectively.

I totally agree with you Because online gambling did not just bring the opportunity for people to gamble on there comfort zone but it has also helped so many people especially the elderly ones to become more exposed to computer operation and going through online to make some research about there gambling, so perhaps that's why sometimes we shouldn't only look at the negative impact of gambling on people's lives but to also consider the improvement and positive impacts it has made on most people's lives especially the introduction of the online gambling which has made everyone including those  who doesn't have an idea about operating computer to start making use of it.

[Davidvictorson]

At least we can call this a positive development occasioned by the proliferation of physical gambling shops.

While we may think that this is a positive development the question I would ask nest is that how does their basic computer operation skills translate into anything? What is the use case for them outside of betting? Agreed, they can use the mouse and navigate the bet screen window, those this mean they have been skillful in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Core Draw these basic skills that they can apply in other areas of their lives? No. Therefore learning basic navigation skills on the computer doesn't equal a real life application case.

[hedgeh0g]

Each time I visit some physical betting shop in my country, I usually observe how some elderly people make use of computers. I live in a country where most people 55 years and above don't have basic computer education. Many of them cannot use the mouse, keyboard, or other parts of the computer. This might be because most of them have not been exposed to computer education.

However, the introduction of online betting has forced most gamblers in my country to learn how to use the computer. It is now common to see some elderly people using the mouse and keyboard effectively. Most of them have never attended any computer education class but learned through observation. Others might have gone through some level of training from family or friends. I am sure many of them wouldn't have learned anything about the computer if not for online gambling. What are your thoughts?

This is probably true, but the main problem with gambling is becoming addicted and doing various things that the player would not have done if he had not become too gambling. I have nothing against the fact that older people have begun to use the computer more often to place bets; moreover, there are a number of implicit positive aspects in gambling besides the computer. One of them is that players can throw out their negative emotions in the game, and not in real life. If I were asked whether gambling brings more positive or negative benefits, I would think and would not be able to quickly answer this question.

By the way, these older players will begin to use computers not only to place bets, but will also begin to look for various information that interests them, such as other hobbies. In general, there is definitely something in this.

[Bravut]

I agree with your idea on how online gambling have affected the elderly ones in your country on the positive side as you have said. But I would not regard that as computer education because they only click the mouse to check game and am sure, there is an attendant in the shop attending to them.
If we truly ask them what they know or understand about computer, disappointment is sure considering your word "Computer Education".

[DarkState]

But I have seen most people use mobile phone for online gambling. Even though they are not comfortable with computers, they can use mobile phone very well. In my country I think people are losing interest in learning computers skills because of mobile phones.

[sunsilk]

However, the introduction of online betting has forced most gamblers in my country to learn how to use the computer. It is now common to see some elderly people using the mouse and keyboard effectively. Most of them have never attended any computer education class but learned through observation. Others might have gone through some level of training from family or friends.

Are you sure that it's mainly online gambling and not the emergence of the internet and that's why many started to learn how to use computers in your country?

I am sure many of them wouldn't have learned anything about the computer if not for online gambling. What are your thoughts?

What country are you from?

While there can be a contribution from the usage through online gambling but you'll never know if that's actually what had made them learn on it.

With everything that's almost online right now, I think that there are some other reasons how they've learned about it.

[rachael9385]

From which country is this? 

Thats odd. Old folks are more interested in using phones as it has more use for them like calling their sons and daughters and at the same time social media.
From what I noticed, phones are cheaper than computers. With just $100, you already have the fastest way to learn how to gamble online, you don't even have to stay in one place, you can commute somewhere and still bet.

Using phone to gamble is the easiest way to navigate any online casino, it's only when one visits the casino house before he or she will be given the opportunity to navigate the casino with a computer. Before anyone would think of going to a casino house to gamble, he's already aware of how to gamble with computers, even though he's having a little know, he can understand what he's doing. Yeah phone is cheaper than a computer a it reduces expenses from both powering and Internet connections fees. However I'm most places there's free Wi-Fi's and steady power supply, so in those places there won't be too much of expenses when using a computer to navigate a casino from internet.

[alani123]

I don't think people here understand what education is supposed to mean. Education is acquired knowledge that can be built upon and taught to others.

Gambling does not require education. It rather requires some skills such as how to use a phone with smart festures, at best an email also. These things are so common these days that anyone can do them. Even in some occasions as a farm worker and hard ksbourer you have to fill in paperwork. So it's nonsense to me to claim that gambling helps education. Let's not pretend this is true. If we want gambling to help actual education suggest to your favorite sites to build something like an education fund for building schools and hiring teachers. But it's probably not happening.

[Samlucky O]

Using computer to gamble does not mean they have known computer or how to operate it entirely. What gambling helps them do os to enlighten them and feel the impact of computer technology. Apart from that, i believe that they don't know how to shutdown a computer or do some vital things in it. A computer comprises of many thing beyond what you have explained here. so operating a computer depends on what you impute in computer and what it gives you.

[Forsyth Jones]

In the country where I live, physical casinos are prohibited, so what remains, in this case for the elderly, is to bet at online casinos and/or crypto casinos. Most of them didn't know how to use Telegram and WhatsApp, Instagram, 'cause this is a tendency for people to interact, they kind of felt forced to learn anyway, whether with the help of their nephews, grandchildren, etc. This is a remarkable social transformation.

This is no different with online casinos, which are the best betting entertainment option for these people. Of course, this is one of the advantages among the disadvantages such as debt and gambling addiction, which if well organized and played responsibly, can be used as fun.