> Never understood what is social about sharing a predefined message that you have harvested a crop. Nothing. This is a misunderstanding of the history of the

> Never understood what is social about sharing a predefined message that you have harvested a crop. Nothing. This is a misunderstanding of the history of the term. A "social game" is a game built on top of a social network site (authoritatively defined here: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html ) that makes actual usage of the SNS mechanisms. Farmville was the genre-definer (social games fitting the definition pre-Zynga were not categorized as such), so it's not surprising that the term is basically bullshit. Wikipedia has an article that differs a bit from my explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_game