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Online social network like Facebook or Myspace, has protruded into almost every computer users’ daily life. You would not be surprised to see a grandfather leaving a message to their grandchildren’s ‘wall’ on Facebook. One of the most popular features in this kind of networking website is ‘applications’.

These applications can range from innocent ‘virtual restaurant’ or ‘virtual farming’, to gambling-involving ‘virtual casino’. One would say that you could never win any cash there. Okay, that is a valid statement. However, these online gambling applications do bring more issues than only ‘money’.

First of all, look at the population that would be using these applications. As said, online social networking platforms are very accessible to everybody, including teenagers. Although the minimum age to register on these websites is 13 year-old, you could already figure out how difficult it can be to give fake credentials and pretend that you are over 13 year-old. As long as you have a Facebook account, gambling application is just at arm’s reach.

How would gambling application for PokerStar.net impact teenagers? Well, the charm of gambling is to win something without paying much effort. Especially online gambling, you literally lose nothing but the bet. Even an adult can easily be addicted to such kind of excitement, not to mention a young kid. By addicting to such an application would mean a prolong usage of computer, and a chain of negative impacts like lack of exercises, low social contact in the real world, etc, you name it.

Another danger is, what if these teenagers practice gambling to a wonderful level from these applications, and think it’s time to play on the real table? Loads of success from the casino applications would definitely drive somebody to try the same trick in places where they can get real money. Besides the application in Facebook, there are many more online casinos available which offers cash prizes. They are just as easy accessible to teenagers. The only difference is that they involve real cash.

What can parents do? Parents nowadays are already much sensitive about internet safety then parents say, 10 years ago. Parents who are linked with kids as friends in Facebook should pay attention to what their kids do online. Of course, some sneakier kids can have another account to use gambling applications. Therefore the most important thing is still about communication, that parents should not avoid the topic and explain the potential problems of playing such kind of applications online to their kids.

To trace the source of the issue, Facebook or any other online gambling application providers like Cherry Red casino should impose stricter rules to control users. It is up to their own choice to introduce different applications and online games. Despite the fact that there are already ‘warnings’ writing somewhere in the application, these, are only passive actions to protect the providers itself from baring legal responsibility.

Between commercial profits triggered from these popular gambling application and social responsibility, hopefully the owner of these networking platforms can find a better balance.