I think there’s a number of reasons and I don’t think one thing made me start gambling. Until gambling compulsively, I used to only put the occasional bet on.
Just read about an 18 yr old from Cardiff who drowned himself after amassing gambling debts of £5000. Beyond tragic and through gambling online.
I don’t know about everyone else, but for me, gambling online was very much a solitary thing. Certainly wasn’t social.