Online gambling increases computer education.

[lienfaye]

Basic computer knowledge is not hard to learn if the person has an interest. So it's not limited to online gambling. Just like my mother, a 71 year old, she don't know how to use smartphone at first because she's not taking time to learn on how to use it since she has no interest. But when she became interested on uploading random videos of her as a vlogger, it didn't took her so long to became a pro using her mobile phone (even her laptop too).

Thus, what i'm saying is, though online gambling is the reason for some elders to learn about computer, the point is it depends on their interest and it's not only about gambling. Because there are other reasons for them to exert an effort to learn if they find something where they're interested in.

[m2017]

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?

I think you overestimate the importance of gambling as a “platform” for teaching people in the older age group (over 55 years old) computer literacy / education. Undoubtedly, gambling here acts as a good motivator for such people, pushing them to start mastering the computer. But should typing the name of a gambling website into a search engine, creating an account and playing gambling be considered the height of computer education? This is ridiculous. All their skills will be limited to writing a couple of words on the keyboard and clicking the mouse in games, which will be used mostly in gambling games.

"Online gambling increases computer education." - This sounds completely absurd to me.
If you want to improve your computer education, then take the appropriate courses.

[boty]

Basic computer knowledge is not hard to learn if the person has an interest. So it's not limited to online gambling. Just like my mother, a 71 year old, she don't know how to use smartphone at first because she's not taking time to learn on how to use it since she has no interest. But when she became interested on uploading random videos of her as a vlogger, it didn't took her so long to became a pro using her mobile phone (even her laptop too).

Thus, what i'm saying is, though online gambling is the reason for some elders to learn about computer, the point is it depends on their interest and it's not only about gambling. Because there are other reasons for them to exert an effort to learn if they find something where they're interested in.

Yes, of course, every person who wants to learn something, of course they have to have a high interest in learning about that thing, because if someone doesn't have interest, of course they will find it difficult to learn about the field they have to study, without interest, of course they will find it difficult. to be able to try to understand the field they are studying and of course they will not be able to achieve satisfactory results from what they are studying.

For some people who want to gamble online, of course they must first understand how basic computers work so that they will be able to access gambling on their computer and of course this is not difficult if they really have the desire to try it.

[junder]

I think you overestimate the importance of gambling as a “platform” for teaching people in the older age group (over 55 years old) computer literacy / education. Undoubtedly, gambling here acts as a good motivator for such people, pushing them to start mastering the computer. But should typing the name of a gambling website into a search engine, creating an account and playing gambling be considered the height of computer education? This is ridiculous. All their skills will be limited to writing a couple of words on the keyboard and clicking the mouse in games, which will be used mostly in gambling games.

"Online gambling increases computer education." - This sounds completely absurd to me.
If you want to improve your computer education, then take the appropriate courses.

it doesn't make sense that the peak of computer education is typing in the name of a gambling site and creating an account and then gambling, in fact I think online gambling doesn't improve computer education because nowadays so many people just use cellphones they can access it too, in my opinion, gambling going online using a cell phone is more convenient than using a computer, it is very ridiculous that online gambling can be said to improve computer education, because there is nothing to be proud of in this case either. Moreover, you just have to click and click to play, if you master photo or video editing software, whether animation or other, that will only increase your computer education.

ridiculous, unethical, even mentioning it makes me feel bad saying online gambling improves computer education. What you say is correct, if you really want to improve your computer education, it would be better to take the appropriate course, because gambling done on a computer or on a cellphone is not much different. I think the difference is only in the breadth of the display. If there are people who think that online gambling improves computer education, I think that's ridiculous.

[angrybirdy]

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?

I can say that this is all true, not just by using the computer but also by the use of mobile devices. Before, some.elders doesn't want to engage in any digital devices because they thought that it is not easy to use but now that they do some online gamblings, they learned a lot, like they improve a lot because they needed to. It's a good points for online gambling because they are the reason why some elders know how to navigate even the simpliest thing to do in a computer.

[Frankolala]

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?

I can say that this is all true, not just by using the computer but also by the use of mobile devices. Before, some.elders doesn't want to engage in any digital devices because they thought that it is not easy to use but now that they do some online gamblings, they learned a lot, like they improve a lot because they needed to. It's a good points for online gambling because they are the reason why some elders know how to navigate even the simpliest thing to do in a computer.

It is not because of gambling mate, we are in the technology Era where computer is important to our lives and that is why you see that everyone just have to join the moving train. I could remember that even youths back days finds it difficult to operate the computer, but it is not so today as many youths are now computer literate.

Most people go to computer courses to learn how to use computers. What I want you to look at is this, the population of gamblers is small compare to the population of non gamblers, so how did the non gamblers learn how to use computers. Online gambling became popular in 2019 during the Covid 19,and many people are already used to gambling.

[iv4n]

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?

I guess the point is that if someone really wants something, they will find a way to make it happen. When it comes to online gambling, if some older people realize that it is much more convenient for them to gamble from home, they will make an effort to learn more about computers, accounts, wallets, etc. It's not space science, it might sound complicated at first, but after repeating the process a few times everything becomes clearer and easier.

I have several older colleagues at work who have only recently discovered Facebook and Instagram... sometimes they ask me to explain something to them or to show them how to do something. They spend more time on social networks than some kids. As I said, when there's a will there's a way.

[l3pox]

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.

That’s true
There’s a gap between wide knowledge about computers and specific one like only knowing how to use a website or app
So one can learn to gamble and not necessarily know anything else about computer, programming , software or whatever

[Majestic-milf]

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?

If I get you correctly, you're trying to give us the pros of online gambling, right? Funny but this is true because I doubt these elderly ones will want to learn how to operate a computer if it were in another setting, they may make excuses that's it's no longer for them, their time has passed and all that but knowing that if you can't operate it, no one will do it for you will make you learn it.
 Although I've seen some who are not really conversant in these gambling houses ask for help from others whenever they want to play but it's not always much. The truth about these things is that there's the good and the bad of it and the Op has brought one pros of online gambling. Frankly, I've never thought of it this way.

[ethereumhunter]

It's okay to introduce how to used computer to elderly people but it is not right if they just wants to knows computer for playing gambling. That can makes them stay for a long time in fronts of computer without doing anything. We knows that if someone sit in the chairs for a long time can effects with their health, especially for those elderly. They must knows that computer can helps them to connects to the internet and when they browse internet, they can finds many useful information and not just gambling. Maybe you can teach those elderly how to uses computer properly so they can distracts their minds from gambling. I think online gambling itself is not increased computer education but we don't knows if that's happens in  your country. Maybe in other countries have different of the used of computer by elderly.

[Hispo]

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What are your thoughts?

Sure, a case could be made about a correlation between the habit of gambling and the computer literacy. However, I think there are other reasons which have nothing do with with gambling and also could lead to the elderly to become proactive with computers and technology in general. Of course there are elderly who like to gamble and because of the convenience of online casinos, they would end up learning how to browse on the internet, open tabs, use a mouse and keyboard, however it is more likely the elderly end up learning those skills from doing more basic tasks, like managing their bank accounts on a computer, keeping in touch with their family and friends who live far away thanks to the use of Whatsapp/Telegram/Skype...I mean, when we compare gambling to other tasks which would help to reach some degree of technological literacy, when one easily can reach the conclusion there are more impacting things which help with it.
I am not sure how common is in your country for people to have internet access or own a smarthphone though, just talking from my personal experience and views.

[redsun114]

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

Happily? No, I don't think so but they might only be forced to learn it because this is the only way for them to accessed and play gambling. Gambling is not a good thing if your country or religion say so but if not, it can be beneficial for one. Of course, as long as we don't get addicted to it.

The only thing that makes operating a computer easy now, is due to the info that we can also get online, that whenever we have experience a difficulty in it, we can just search it right away. Creators of computers do also made their system more user-friendly than before because of the new existing techs and stuffs available. And also for the sake of the people, mostly students.

[Cityhunter34]

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?

Absolutely right because online betting have really helped our elderly people's to be more familiar with computer because any time I visit a gambling bet office I'm always happy when see them using mouse and keyboard very well, although if not for the awerness of this online betting I didn't think that It would have been possible for them to learn how to use computer again because of their age.

[Yaunfitda]

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?

But to learn computer just to gamble? I don't know if you can rationalized that mentally. They could have learn it without losing money in the first place, isn't it? Or maybe they can also used the mobile phone because they can access it easily and can play online game? And what education we are talking about here? just clicking mouse? If we talk about education then it could be not just using the mouse, but maybe type something or send email to someone from the other side of the globe or create a Facebook account to correspond, instead of like using the computer, simple click and mouse and gamble loss money and then call it education? I'm confused!!

[Taskford]

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?

Really? since I don't think that's the case since for sure elderly participates on gambling have less numbers so I guess there's no real proof regarding gambling help to increase the gambling education.

But if you mean social media sites help to increase computer education well yes for sure all of us will agree to that since for sure elderly would adopt to the technology so that they can communicate with their love ones which live far away from them. Maybe they just notice the existence of some casino since they are been advertise by some people they see online that's why maybe this caught up their interest to gamble especially if they used to bet on some games which they see offline.

[piebeyb]

It's okay to introduce how to used computer to elderly people but it is not right if they just wants to knows computer for playing gambling. That can makes them stay for a long time in fronts of computer without doing anything. We knows that if someone sit in the chairs for a long time can effects with their health, especially for those elderly. They must knows that computer can helps them to connects to the internet and when they browse internet, they can finds many useful information and not just gambling. Maybe you can teach those elderly how to uses computer properly so they can distracts their minds from gambling. I think online gambling itself is not increased computer education but we don't knows if that's happens in  your country. Maybe in other countries have different of the used of computer by elderly.

Yes, that's right, and as usual, the disease of the elderly is in their eyesight. Moreover, computers are not something that the elderly have to learn, there are many modern cellphones that they can use to gamble, they don't have to be with a computer, unless they are in a place where there are lots of gamblers, but they don't. can use their cell phones and computers, but it is not computers that they should learn because there is still a lot they can learn on the internet, not always about gambling. Maybe they can trade online too.

In my place there are not many elderly people who play on computers, let alone laptops. Indeed, education is important, but for them it may not be something old-fashioned, nor can they play with computers and try to keep up with today's sophisticated technological era. In my opinion, computer education for the elderly is not very appropriate because they will never be able to spend too long in front of the computer due to their eyesight problems which may not be good unless using a cell phone is much smaller and easier.

[TopTort777]

It would sound more real that online gambling increases mobile sales, than computer education. Who would sign for computer education if he wants to gamble? Gadgets are so user friendly today, that anyone from 5 to 60 is able to operate it like fish being in the water. Even if elderly shows an interest to gambling, they would gamble offline. Moreover, I barely see elderly behind computers, and even if there are some who gamble, the amount of them would be so little, that it would not even be noticeable.

[sompitonov]

It would sound more real that online gambling increases mobile sales, than computer education. Who would sign for computer education if he wants to gamble? Gadgets are so user friendly today, that anyone from 5 to 60 is able to operate it like fish being in the water. Even if elderly shows an interest to gambling, they would gamble offline. Moreover, I barely see elderly behind computers, and even if there are some who gamble, the amount of them would be so little, that it would not even be noticeable.

Indeed, gambling on mobile devices is gaining more and more users every year, and of course the number of older players is becoming large. But modern smartphones are small computers, they’re just very convenient. And the fact that you can play from almost anywhere, wherever they are, is a big breakthrough in recent years. Of course, older people, if they know how to use smartphones well, will be able to use a computer, and their interest in gambling gives them development in this. Some of them will get tired of gambling and will remain with the skills of working in browsers or apps, which will allow them to learn new things on the Internet using browsers.

[Mame89]

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

Times are increasingly developing and it is very natural for people, especially older people, to learn about today's technology such as PCs and Smartphones. Not only for gambling but also for other purposes. It cannot be denied that the presence of technology like today makes it easier for people to gamble, including those who are older, who previously played offline and are now playing online.

I don't know which country you come from, but in my country the average parent plays online gambling via smartphone, very few play gambling via PC. In fact, they deliberately study and buy smartphones just to be able to gamble. I once met someone who was old and bought a smartphone just to gamble. Yes, apart from gambling, he can also make calls, but his intention to buy a smartphone is only for gambling.

[swogerino]

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 shows how a society which has gambling as a habit as this I am understanding from this story can benefit from such "plague" as it is a "plague" that has created new needs for people to learn to adapt.This is a good example of becoming computer literate,of course basic level in old people age which usually don't have the patience and desire to learn new things,let alone computers.Still though in your society there is this "plague" as I said which needs to be fixed as learning computer cannot solve economic problems and since you see elderly people on betting clubs this means that the economy is not sane at all.In developed countries where economy is somewhat better elderly people usually go to dancing clubs for elderly to have a good time and certainly not lotto clubs.