Social Networking Sites Are a Friend of Network Gaming

Whether they know it or not, Social Networking sites -- particularly Facebook and Linkedin -- are another thing helping to take Network PC/Console gaming in to the main-stream, particularly to adults over-30 who may not have gamed much previously

Why?

When you are on Facebook and run into old buds who are 3,000 miles away, spur of the moment games of Madden '11 (online) are a lot easier to organize than a real-life rounds of golf!