Comments on: Finally: Games beat Email as Online Time Sink https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2010/08/03/finally-games-beat-email-as-online-time-sink/ My name is Jesper Juul, and I am a Ludologist [researcher of the design, meaning, culture, and politics of games]. This is my blog on game research and other important things. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2010/08/03/finally-games-beat-email-as-online-time-sink/comment-page-1/#comment-55879 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:16:34 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=1081#comment-55879 No, it didn’t.

Reason: if Nielsen did factor it in, then the 22.7% figure for social networks must be games-excluded, and therefore represent 60% of the games-included figure. This means that the games-included figure for social networks is 22.7/0.6, which is 37.833%. 40% of this must be for games, so that’s (227/6)*0.4, which is 15.133%. As the entire figure they give for games is less than this, they can’t have factored it in.

Well, they could if other social networks have different figures to Facebook and there are enough of them to change the figures…

Richard

]]> By: Jesper https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2010/08/03/finally-games-beat-email-as-online-time-sink/comment-page-1/#comment-55875 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:33:30 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=1081#comment-55875 @Richard I wonder if the study I cited factored that in.

]]> By: Richard https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2010/08/03/finally-games-beat-email-as-online-time-sink/comment-page-1/#comment-55874 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:52:29 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=1081#comment-55874 40% of the time people spend in social networks is in games.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/30/half-of-all-facebook-users-play-social-games-its-40-of-total-usage-time/

Richard

]]> By: Linn https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2010/08/03/finally-games-beat-email-as-online-time-sink/comment-page-1/#comment-55862 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:45:50 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=1081#comment-55862 Fair enough, but does it have to be asynchronous to replace email? Which was more my point, although not well enough articulated in that little sentence.
I just wonder, half jokingly yet half seriously, -how many use online gaming space for their personal communication? By using in-game chat to catch up with friends or the private message systems. I think it’s common for online gamers to take some time to catch up on communication in-game before playing, maybe using it as an emailing system, but being registered as time spent in online games, not e-mail. Perhaps a true sign that our activities online are pretty much the same, but our space is more defined, as in when we’re online we’re also in-game?

Just having fun spinning around with it. ;)

]]> By: Jesper https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2010/08/03/finally-games-beat-email-as-online-time-sink/comment-page-1/#comment-55861 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:14:56 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=1081#comment-55861 @Linn Good point, but I don’t think that games (apart from Animal Crossing) offer that great tools for asynchronous messaging?

]]> By: Linn https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2010/08/03/finally-games-beat-email-as-online-time-sink/comment-page-1/#comment-55860 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:42:36 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=1081#comment-55860 Or maybe also some of their personal communication is in-game?

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