Sorry I'm a luddite!
I have to admit, I’m not much of a gamer. The most advanced gaming I do is on my treasured Sega Genesis, the same console I’ve had since I was ten. That said, I have two little brothers in my life (ok, not so little– they’re 17 and 22) and I am fascinated by the way social media and gaming overlap in their lives. They might be playing some game on their Wii with a “real” friend or someone in Shanghai. I’ll be watching something on Netflix, streaming through their console, and they’ll get some nonsensical invite from halfway around the world challenging them to a game.
The bain of my Facebook existence
I’ve been using social networking websites since the dawn of Friendster in 2002, but I never use it to play games. And it seems that only the weirdest, lamest “friends” of mine post their Farmville (or whatever) statistics on their Facebook profiles. Generally when this happens, I block out this content from my newsfeed. I’m just too busy to consider engaging with social media in this context. Foursquare seems interesting for those living in giant metropolises where friends hop from place to place with a rapid frequency, but here in Austin, where we tend to move a bit slowly, this technology has yet to catch on.
