I have seen so many persons rely so much on bet sources that they are often times left hanging when there's no new updates and become too lazy or too dumb to make predictions of their own.
Looks like these people have no interest in sports (I am assuming, you are talking about sports here) at all but rather just want to follow somebody, make bets and want to make money of it. If they actually had knowledge of their own, they wouldn't be following as such.
So I have to advise or better still find out, do you feel that too much reliance on gambling/bet sources from both friends and social networks, is as much, detrimental to both health, emotions, personal love life and other important relationships and responsibilities as you have noticed or not?
I don't think there is any negative connotations here particularly, as said above, their only motive seems to be to make money, they have no passion or knowledge of sports here so they follow somebody else who they think is knowledgeable and hope make money.