| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | Online Gambling Entertainment Keeps Gaining Popularity
- Monday, 25 Sep 2006
Along with many other kinds of entertainment, the online gambling is becoming very popular among the young people these days. According to a study released earlier this year, 600,000 young adults between the ages of 14 to 22 have reported gambling on the Internet on a weekly basis. The study, which was conducted by the Annenberg Foundation, also found the age group had the highest rate of gambling addictions.
Victor Wong, a freshman in the School of Management says gambling provides a lot of entertainment: "I really like online gambling, since it is a great time pass and it is accessible from wherever I want, whenever I want. I also like gambling because of the high risk/high reward idea, but I only risk what I can afford". However, students do not always act responsibly and the gambling hobby can stop being simply entertainment and get out of control. Sometimes the effects of online gambling can become cyclical.
Another student says: "Folks get stressed, anxious, get behind and then feel overwhelmed because they can't catch up. Grades go down, they panic, so then they procrastinate even further by using the computer more, and so it becomes a cycle." But some experts say not everyone is so strongly affected by the online gambling. "It really depends on the type of person you are in order for gambling to affect you," says one of them. Nevertheless, online gambling should stay an entertainment method, no more. Please do control yourselves. | |
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