Quebec 11/21/2009 1:30:56 AM
News / Business

Online Casinos Targeting Social Media Networks

Socializing with your friends used to be as easy as logging in, checking your messages, and then perhaps responding to a few, commenting on pictures and funny memories of night’s pasts.

Socializing with your friends used to be as easy as logging in, checking your messages, and then perhaps responding to a few, commenting on pictures and funny memories of night’s pasts. Places like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, the three giants of social networks are now so much more complex then when they were first introduced to the Internet. Some would say this is just a result of Internet evolution. Others would say this is a result of marketing, and pioneering for the advertising industry.

Not only are you invited to join different farm friendly games, and create your own mob gang online, now you are able to play your favorite poker hands, or try your luck with an automated slot machine. You don’t even have to leave your couch or computer desk to gamble the night away.

Since the quiet merge of advertisements, socializing and gambling has snuck into our daily activities. Now the casino industry thinks maybe they need to take a few notes from the big boys and try their own hand at social networking. By bringing in new options and opportunities to the online gaming industry you will be able to talk with friends, add them to your casino favorite’s page, chat and so on. This would be very similar to some of the “big dogs” in social networking, just this time; you could be playing online poker and talking at the same time.

The current conversations of upgrading to a social network within the casino network is so high tech that one will actually be able to comment on a game as it is happening in live time, comment on one’s bet, or leave a comment for them on their personal page. If you like someone’s playing style you will be able to add him or her to your friends list, and see when he or she are online, even perhaps be able to add a picture to your profile. This will be constructed much like Facebook is, and will function in the same manner.