Gaming More Popular Than Social Networking

by Dana Massey, posted on 20 Aug 2007 18:20

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Take that Facebook! Gaming, mostly thanks to casual games, is officially a more popular activity than updating the status bar in Facebook. That`s not bad considering the hundreds of millions of MySpace users who populate the world.

Social networks like MySpace and viewing short video clips on YouTube may be extremely popular, but online games eclipse both as America's favorite Internet activity, according to a new report.

The research and analysis company Parks Associates announced Friday that games are still the most popular Internet activity in the United States. The report, "Casual Gaming Market Update", found that 34% of U.S. adult Internet users play online games each week, compared with 29% who watch short online videos and 19% who visit social networking sites.