Facebook and the Merging of Games and Social Networks [Slashdot]

[DP ServBot]

Gamasutra has an in-depth interview with Gareth Davis, Facebook's platform manager, about how social networks and online gaming are intersecting more and more as each industry matures. He says, "There's a cultural shift towards people being willing, excited, and preferring to use their real world identities online. We all know that 10 years ago, you were as anonymous as possible online, right? And today, we spend a lot of our time putting our real world identities out there and sharing them ... And we've seen this occur on Facebook.com, where as more and more people join Facebook and your social graph is more complete, you have the ability to have these social experiences with people you've never had before, and you're playing games with people whom you didn't play games with before, with your family members, with your parents, with friends in remote locations. There's this new gaming activity happening that we believe will translate to the consoles as well."http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/12/0522207 (http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/12/0522207/Facebook-and-the-Merging-of-Games-and-Social-Networks?from=rss)
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[The 1 2 P]

As someone who doesn't have myspace, facebook, friendster, napster or any other "sters, spaces and books", this new XBL application is the only thing that might get me half interested in this kind of social networking. I doubt it but I'll atleast give it a try since it's on my console anyway and I'm always surfing my XBL channel menus.

[Rev. Link]

I opened a Facebook account not too long after it opened to the general public. I did this because most of my friends who had went to college had one already, and they used it to share pictures. I figured it would be a good way to keep in touch with my close friends and share pics of all our good old times, since we don't get to see each other as much anymore.

For a few months it was fine, and I had about half a dozen or so of my closest friends on my Facebook and no one else. Then I started getting invites from people I went to high school with who I hadn't seen in ten years, or family members, or friends of the family, or other folks like that who I knew in real life and felt like I coulndn't deny them without hurting their feelings. So I would up getting like twenty people on my Facebook, most of whom I didn't want there.

So now I just never use it anymore.

[digitalpress]

I'm a generation older than most Facebook people but it's been a terrific experience for me. I've got friends from all walks of life - high school friends, college friends, family members, previous career friends, forum friends, store friends, online gaming friends - and it's been a terrific way to keep in touch with everyone who cares to as well as merge a few of those walks of life, which has been an equally terrific experience.

Build it into my daily gaming environment? Let's do it.

[Baloo]

Had a Facebook account for a couple months, then shut it down when I realized it's just MINDLESS BULLSHIT. Level-up games with no substance, random quizzes, and a bunch of stuff that simply tries to get as much info about you out of you, with a chat feature. If I want to chat, I use MSN, simple. The site is plagued with slowdown too, too many users. Also the tons of people who try to friend you when you don't know who they are.

Simply not my cup of tea.

[boatofcar]

I'm a generation older than most Facebook people but it's been a terrific experience for me. I've got friends from all walks of life - high school friends, college friends, family members, previous career friends, forum friends, store friends, online gaming friends - and it's been a terrific way to keep in touch with everyone who cares to as well as merge a few of those walks of life, which has been an equally terrific experience.

Build it into my daily gaming environment? Let's do it.

I completely agree. Facebook is a great experience, made even better by customizing it using Facebook Fixer (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8861). Too many friends cluttering up your news feed posting stuff you don't care about? Facebook makes it easy to block them while still keeping them as friends.

[digitalpress]

I completely agree. Facebook is a great experience, made even better by customizing it using Facebook Fixer (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8861). Too many friends cluttering up your news feed posting stuff you don't care about? Facebook makes it easy to block them while still keeping them as friends.

I'm not sure what "Facebook Fixer" does, but Facebook itself has a "hide" feature for both friends and applications so you don't have to see these on your home wall page. That has worked most excellently for me.

[kedawa]

Facebook is great for reconnecting with people whose companionship isn't worth the effort it would take to contact them through conventional means.
No thanks.

[boatofcar]

I'm not sure what "Facebook Fixer" does, but Facebook itself has a "hide" feature for both friends and applications so you don't have to see these on your home wall page. That has worked most excellently for me.

Facebook Fixer hides the Highlights Bar, People You May Know, Suggestions, and all the other crap I don't care about that you can't get rid of using the normal options.

[UK Collector]

Facebook has started to turn into the online equivalent of bumping into someone you know but dont really like in the supermarket. You have to put up a pretense of friendship and share some details, all the while screaming obscenities at them in your head.

[The 1 2 P]

Facebook has started to turn into the online equivalent of bumping into someone you know but dont really like in the supermarket. You have to put up a pretense of friendship and share some details, all the while screaming obscenities at them in your head.

You just basically summed up why I avoid most social networking sites.

[SegaAges]

If I want to play a game, I will play a game.

The only social networking site I am actively a member of is imeem.com, but that is centered around music

[JSoup]

Facebook has started to turn into the online equivalent of bumping into someone you know but dont really like in the supermarket. You have to put up a pretense of friendship and share some details, all the while screaming obscenities at them in your head.

Or you could just say 'I don't want to talk to you' or 'Get the fuck away from me'. I've done that before. Hell, an old teacher of mine that I hate contacted me on Facebook. I plainly told her to never bother me again.

[Enigmus]

Gamasutra has an in-depth interview with Gareth Davis, Facebook's platform manager, about how social networks and online gaming are intersecting more and more as each industry matures. He says, "There's a cultural shift towards people being willing, excited, and preferring to use their real world identities online. We all know that 10 years ago, you were as anonymous as possible online, right? And today, we spend a lot of our time putting our real world identities out there and sharing them ... And we've seen this occur on Facebook.com, where as more and more people join Facebook and your social graph is more complete, you have the ability to have these social experiences with people you've never had before, and you're playing games with people whom you didn't play games with before, with your family members, with your parents, with friends in remote locations. There's this new gaming activity happening that we believe will translate to the consoles as well."http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/12/0522207 (http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/12/0522207/Facebook-and-the-Merging-of-Games-and-Social-Networks?from=rss)
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HELL NO.

I hate it. One of my friends in the REAL world tried to get me to join by showing me some poorly made Grand Theft Auto thing that made me want to vomit. And now they want to combine random stranger vomit and my game systems? What will they sell? Whack? Crack? Speed? Dope? I don't think so! Not in my neighborhood!:-P

Still, this and that god awful Roblox one of my friends keeps pushing on me need to crawl into a corner and disappear.