The UK’s Bingo Association, that bastion of hope for the beleaguered land-based sector of our bingo industry, has just published a report in which it attempts to make a connection between declining community interaction and the demise of the land-based bingo hall.

The report is quite far reaching and certainly provides a comprehensive look at issues regarding the way UK adults spend their leisure time and how that relates back to a sense of community.

However, what I find curious about the report is that within the vast assemblage of facts and survey results, there is very little of substance dealing with the impact of a new generation of online bingo halls and the effect on bingo habits provided by free online bingo games.  It’s as if the report simply does not want to deal with the change in social habits now provided by ‘living online’, as so many UK people now do.

It’s understandable that the Bingo Association and its vested interest in keeping traditional land-based bingo chugging along would look to interpret the results of such a study as evidence that land-based bingo needs to be supported – if only for the sake of our sense of community. But there may be other factors at play here that tell a slightly different story.
Online bingo is one of the online gambling industry’s fastest growing niches, and given that the Bingo Association-sponsored survey shows a large proportion of the population preferring to stay home during their leisure hours, it makes sense that free online bingo is a natural option for such people looking to play bingo.

Also, let’s not forget that one of online bingo’s greatest attractions is that it still facilitates a sense of community via its chat room functions and inter-player communications.  In the end, online bingo is still about ‘community interaction’, it’s just that it’s a different way of communicating within the bingo community.

Written by John Witherspoon – Visit the best UK online bingo site. Bingostreet.com is your ultimate source for the best bingo games online.

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