Comments on: Online Gaming Is More Popular than Facebook and YouTube

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:06:43 +0000

I have read a lot of articles about online gaming for teens and adults. I am interested in programs for young children. We recently started a Webkinz club at the library and it has been very popular. They kids share with each other tips and tricks for Webkinz world. Kids can ask questions, but mostly it is adults who ask the questions. We also have races (not online) and spin our version of the “Wheel of Wow” (not the online version) and make crafts. It is a common interest.
We do not require the kids to have a Webkinz, though currently all the kids who come have at least one. It is the safest online community for kids I have seen. In the fall, we are thinking about a “What is Webkinz?” class for parents who are concerned about the safety of children while online. Does anyone else do online gaming with younger kids and if so, what kinds of things do you do?

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Trebonte » Blog Archive » article: gaming statistics — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:10:46 +0000

[…] “Playing games is still a more popular online activity in the U.S. than watching short video clips or visiting social networking websites, according to Casual Gaming Market Update, a new report from Parks Associates. Thirty-four percent of U.S. adult Internet users play online games on a weekly basis, compared with 29% who watch short online videos and 19% who visit social networking sites with the same frequency.” Gaming Remains the Most Popular Online Entertainment Activity, Hat tip: The Shifted Librarian. […]

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:33:11 +0000

What about games you play ON facebook? There are several apps on there now that function this way and people spend hours and hours on them because they have a bit of the social element (don’t just poke your friends — recruit them to be pirates then bomb them and steal their coins)

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By: Jon Gorman

Jon Gorman — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:20:40 +0000

Just a curious note. I've noticed I have a tendency to treat the phrase "online games" differently than "games online". When I hear the phrase online games I think of games that derive part of their function from being online. So in other words, I'm interacting with remote servers. So a pc game like World of Warcraft is an online game. So too would be a MUD. Even console games that allow me to use things like X-Box Live can be an online game. Notice you could play many console games either online or off. I don't consider things like most of the pop games and the like to be "online games". (Think collapse, the bookworm one, etc). They're merely games you play online. The online part is just a delivery mechanism. If many people didn't have trouble with installing software, you could easily see people installing them on their computer and never go back online. Trapped in a more nebulous area for me is online versions of card and board games with multiple live players. Is chess game done via a webpage an online game? Is a chess game played by email an online game? Yes, but it's not what would immediately come to my mind. My suspicion is that most people don't differentiate between the two and it's more of a product of growing up a gamer in the eighties. So....I wonder if there's a need to distinguish between those types of games.