Social Online Gambling in Australia

Australia gambling 1Online-Casinos.com – There are many questions being raised today about what video games are doing to our youth. Not that young people are the only ones to play games. After all it was the older demographic that started the video game trend way back before the abundance of cell phones and mobile computers.

The biggest question being asked by the academics is not whether the internet has an impact on youth its is how much is the use of the internet affecting their lives. We hear of bullying going on over the internet and all kinds of other trouble the younger set are having with the over abundance of information on the web. It is the accessibility that makes the internet a dangerous place along with its invasive all around us nature.

Online social gaming has become a huge pastime with its free gaming applications and addictive quality games. In a recent article from Melbourne Australia in the Financial Review a journalist talks about the gambler in training concept that some critics are referring to as the monetization of social online gaming.

The Australian mother of two children says in the article she was totally addicted to the Candy Crush Saga online game. A little less than 100 million people played the game in 2013, a massive number of players only exceeded by the equally amazing $1.54 billion USD in revenue the game generated for its developer, King ­Digital Entertainment.

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