The Impact of the Digital World: The Rise of Social Casinos

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One contributing factor to the popularization of online resources as a whole has been the ubiquity of social media across the past decade. In the early ‘00s, the concept of social media was just beginning to be formed as a social construct, with sites like Friendster, MySpace, and Facebook. When initially introduced, these sites accentuated real-life communication between users rather than replacing it. However, as some of these formative sites fell by the wayside and more advanced ones, such as Instagram and TikTok, became part of our culture, social media sites became less of an extension of the real world and more of a whole new digital universe.

This rise in usage accelerated across the 2010s, b