当我们在中国大谈SNS的用户关系、SNS的用户发展模式、SNS中社区游戏对关系和人的影响的时候。facebook平台上的游戏，正在静静的对用户和他现实生活中的亲友关系产生潜移默化的影响。

下面这段文字是我在网上看到一个美国社区游戏用户对社区游戏、社交关系、家庭关系等对他和他的家人产生的影响的真实评论。你需要点耐心，好好的看看：

After reading the article, I felt the need to address the following passage, “And by emphasizing the social stickiness of a game, there’s a chicken-and-egg risk that the games are boring for people who don’t have enough friends already playing.”

I was not a gamer when I opened my Facebook account. Sick of the advertising on MySpace, I simply followed the crowd to Facebook where my college age relatives set up shop. We use it to share family pictures. Even my 82 year old mother has a Facebook account.

Having said that, my college student son asked the family to join a game so he could get a new level on a racing game he was playing. Nitrous Racing, is to me by far the best of the racing games as it involves not only racing, but different plots and stories requiring decisions and choices. While Zynga may have the hottest Mafia game in Mafia Wars, it is still a rote “keep pressing this button until you get to the next level” mentality (even in it’s new offering, “Farmville”).

My point is, whether it is Nitrous Racing (Clipwire Games), Mafia Wars (Zynga) or Restaurant City (the Playfish offering), all these games have a built-in ability to grow your own social network. Any one of these games comes with a link to a forum in which millions of other players who love and enjoy the game are looking for new friends to share their passion with.

As I said earlier, I knew nothing about gaming before coming to Facebook. Through playing these three games I have amassed thousands of friends. Some were kept just long enough to add to my mafia total or get a new ingredient, while over 1,000 have stayed to allow themselves to gain points, loot and experience by helping me with mafia jobs, creating a group of people driving the same car to do a racing job or being available at all times to trade ingredients as they find the need.

I have enjoyed being exposed to so many different new cultures (have no clue what several of my friend’s names are because I can’t read Cantonese) and meeting some wonderful people who, oddly enough, find these same three games as entertaining and relaxing as I do. Even my 82 year old mother has fallen in love with Restaurant City and looks forward to receiving her free ingredient every day. We do the quiz together over the phone every night at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.

Social networking games teach us we really are all one people. Browsing through the avatars of many of my new and temporary friends reveals the ideal that family is held in high regard and friends are what make the ride fun while we are here. Even if you never meet them face to face.

If Microsoft’s charter to put a computer in every home was the key to creating this amazing ability to communicate with one another across the globe in this century, social games have become the venue in which we realize we are one people. Whatever our governments throw at us to make us believe we are too different to get along is wiped away the minute we come to one another’s aid without thinking twice in the gaming world. This is the world I am proud to be a part of.

Even my 82 year old mother has fallen in love with Restaurant City and looks forward to receiving her free ingredient every day.
译文：甚至我82岁的母亲爱上了美食城这款游戏，而每天都要期盼着去获得免费的食材！

Samuel：我真是不知道该用什么样的现实感受来描绘我第一次看到这句话的时候的惊叹，一款什么样的游戏能够让一位老人如此的沉迷？

Having said that, my college student son asked the family to join a game so he could get a new level on a racing game he was playing.
译文：已经说了，我上大学的儿子，让全家人都加入到一个游戏，这样他就可以在他玩的一款竞赛游戏内提升等级。

Samuel：或许，这个儿子可以自己注册多个ID，也可以让朋友和同学来帮助，但是他选择的是家人，我想这就是他所选择的分享快乐的对象。不仅仅是简单的出于升级的目的，其中还有分享的快乐。