On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Heather Marie Wells
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> I have to disagree about the gaming on Facebook. I’m in my earlier 30s and my friends and I consider ourselves “serious gamers” and we LOATH the gaming aspects of Facebook. We could care less to get notices from our few friends who play Farmville and seriously wish that Facebook would allow you to filter crap like that.
Actually, you can. First off, when someone sends you an invite, you
can click on "block this application." Secondly, you can click on the
"hide" button next to the game post and all posts by that game will be
hidden. It's cleaned up my status list considerably.
I also think there needs to be a distinction between "serious games"
like Wii, first person shooters, WoW, etc. and "casual games" like
Farmville, Diner Dash, Bejeweled. It's these "casual" games that are
on the rise, especially among women, and companies are capitalizing on
them.
Lastly, I am constantly amazed by the people that find me on FB. It's
not just the young but older people, retirees, middle-aged friends
that hardly use e-mail, relatives that I didn't know could use a
computer in the first place, etc. etc. While the tweens and college
set might be the most prolific posters, I think Facebook probably has
the widest demographics of any social application because it is so
easy to use. And it seems like a lot of people are aggregating their
"tweets" so that they blast out to everything, including Facebook. So
why should I follow you on Twitter or Live Journal if you are blasting
the same tweets to all of your apps? I could pick one ap like
Facebook, which integrates the casual games, blogs, and pictures, and
only have to deal with one application.
Deb Fuller
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