Social Animals Comments by Rob Fahey

oh the shame!

//Predicts countless posts declaring facebook/twitter are stupid and above us "core" gamers.

I use facebook to spy on my friends photos :D

"Many people within the games space feel, intuitively, that there must be a way of marrying social networking and videogames together."

Surprised Home wasn't mentioned once in the article, since that was the whole premise of the app.

Home isn't exactly a good example of social networking. It's more like an example of "what you shouldn't do" ;D

If you ask the people using it regularly they'd probably say it's a good example. Anyway, it's an example of the marrying of social networking and gaming the article alludes to so it seems odd not to mention it. I think the writer equates social networking with Facebook though.

Facebook/twitter are stupid and above us "core" gamers.

This 'marriage' is definitely going to be more and more apparent and in many situations could work very well, however for me personally I still see gaming and indeed watching a movie for instance as mostly a way to get AWAY from it all, sometimes the incessant checking up of what friends might be doing can get a bit desperate and heard many things from friends and work colleagues saying how they almost literally spend all night on it reloading the page, it's addictive. I don't want that world colliding too much with my gaming, cos quite frankly even having MSN on the 360 can be a distraction too far (also a bit too fiddly to change status all the time).

As much as capitalists would LOVE everyone to be connected constantly with each other, with that little marketing opportunity ever present in some form or another, I hope we still all have a chance to chill out once and a while and get immersed in something away from the banality of life, which one of my mates got hammered last night or who's grandpa just died etc...

Argh, that should be below not above. No sleep makes Pastici a dull boy.

do not want. It's bad enough that clods on my MSN list start (and guilt me into staying in) conversations partway through a 360 (why yes, I'd much rather painfully type to you via joypad than carry on playing Call of Duty, thanks) but now with Facebook I can now have friends of friends mothers and aunts and co workers seeing that I spent an entire day playing Fallout. You've had people sacked because of Facebook already, just wait until you have a day (legitimately) off sick and play some Peggle while you sip Lemsip, but then return to work and are hauled in front of the boss to explain why you were too sick to work but not too sick to play video games.

You know what the solution is?

Don't join Facebook.

metal, set your MSN to not sign in automatically!

"The best is most certainly yet to come. "

It's just around the corner!

Redsparrows, I find that setting doesn't 'remember' to do that. In much the same way that since NXE, I no longer sign automatically into Live when I turn my 360 on (it does sign in my profile at least) despite being set to do so.

*shrugs*

Nevertheless, it sucks.