Thursday, December 8, 2011

Impact of Facebook on Online Bingo

Planning a party? Send your invites via Facebook. Something at work bothering you? Vent it on Facebook. Want to show your old flame how your life now is way better than it was when you were with him? Post your snaps from last night's party with your latest arm-candy on Facebook. It is indeed astonishing to note what this medium of social networking has been able to achieve in the 7 years since its launch. Now, memories of the recent past can be divided into two categories: events that happened before the advent of Facebook and events that happened after it. For a large majority of us, life revolves around this extraordinary social networking site. It is hard to remember how we managed to do so many things before the site was launched; things that we are manifestly incapable of doing without it now.

Facebook lingo has entered common parlance, and by the looks of it, this is a movement that has already grown its roots. It isn't uncommon anymore to hear things like 'Let's Facebook tonight' or 'Tag me' being dropped very casually in a conversation between friends. However, what's even more astounding to see is that the charms of this social phenomenon are not lost on the older generation. Unlike the other networking sites of lore, Facebook has been accepted whole-heartedly by people of all ages. Now, many of us have our parents as our 'friends' on this site. When Mark Zuckerberg, along with his friends from Harvard, designed and created this site in the year 2004, he probably did not have even the slightest inkling that soon, it was to become one of the biggest entrepreneurial successes that our generation has seen. From making emails obsolete by changing how we keep in touch with our friends and colleagues to giving the concept of keeping tabs on previous lovers an entirely new dimension to changing how we play online games, Facebook has hit our world like the proverbial lightning.

Browsing through the homepage or even the games invites from friends is enough to tell us the popularity that online gaming enjoys on the site. Not to be left far behind, the finest bingo sites as well as some of the esteemed bingo portals, have established an active presence on this social networking site. From advertising special bingo bonus codes to propagating no deposit bingo bonuses, the capacity of this medium to reach out is unmatched by any other. The Facebook pages of many such bingo sites advertise festive bonus codes which are meant exclusively for those who are their fans on the networking site. Players stand to benefit a lot from visiting these pages as these unique codes and bonuses can then be used by them while they are playing at the bingo site in question, to claim free bonus and sometimes, even free cash.

Most regular trends have a shelf life and tend to go downhill once they have reached their saturation point. This theory, however, doesn't hold true in case of this networking site. This is because Facebook is not merely a regular trend - it is a phenomenon. Many competitor sites have come and gone, but none of them have been a patch on Facebook's popularity. As Facebook rages ahead at full speed, so will the online bingo sites associated with it.