If your a gamer then you know that there are many different types of gamers that exist. Different levels different kinds. The one thing that every gamer does in today's' world is interact with other gamers. My aunt is 60+ and is the top DPS player in her guild currently. She plays an M.M.O.R.P.G. on her phone. She has a doctorate degree in education is the principle of a private school and the highlight of her weekend was doing a dungeon with her guild.
What this means is that she is in a position as a person who owns stocks and financial properties to influence the market. My uncle does all the investing but he listens to his wife. She talks to and listens to the people in her guild. Also she is on her phone with the game so she is a smartphone gamer. She used to game on her laptop with FB, but switched when she purchased a smartphone. She stopped using Facebook, and now uses G+ on her phone to do the FB networking. All the people she interacts with have switched, her student us FB (elementry school kids). And then when they hit Jr. High, it's Twitter, Facetime, or an app. The FB app is not as fluid as it should be. So they don't use it.
All afternoon on CNBC "Closing Bell", and "Options Action" everyone is talking about FB. They analysts are not sure what to do and are blaming the launch of the IPO for the bad performance of the stock. This is ignorant of what is happening on FB itself. If FB does not does not reshape how it deals with the people that conduct business on FB and the Gaming community on FB it's gonna be gone in less than Ten years. When FB crashes it will be worse than Myspace which is technically still around. Myspace died for three reasons, no block button, overspam, predatory user reputation. Facebook will die because Mark Zuckerberg is not paying attention to the geeks and gamers. He needs to log-in again.
If any of you have sat in Ironforge, or any other populus area in WOW you know that they Gamers on WOW talk about everything. These places on the internet and in-game on consuls and on phones are where market trends are being decided daily. If FB is pissing people off they are gonna find another way to get done what they need to get done. I don't need a FB page anymore, G+ is partnered with everything that I use anyway (Except Twitter, which may happen).
I log in to one place and can do everything. FB is connected to many things but it has a sense of not being serious or not being worth the time to update. I still network on FB but that is all I do with it. More and more people I do business with are using Google+. And we can't chat from G+, video conference, the ease of use to other things that I deal with in regular business is there. FB has a childish or "take or leave it" feel to it. Which is what Myspace had towards the end.
Gamers are fickle and speak in layers, G+ came out and they all hated it, pretending to see through Google's attempt to take over the world and stuck with their way of doing things. Then gradually as G+ got easier to use they started using it and the conversations in forums and Raid ques started to change in tone.
Why does this matter to the financial sector? Video games in terms of net profits outsell Hollywood and porn, every year. Gaming is measured millions of units sold, there are less than 15,000 movie theaters on the whole planet. If you compare tickets sold, to units sold, and apps downloaded it's no contest.
It's only a matter of time till we start having gaming celebrities that go mainstream.
Keep in mind, Lady Gaga got big on the internet first, she got trended by Google search optimization first. Gamer generation(anybody who gaming or the iNet is part of daily life) gave her the hits to make Google optimizer her, and blow up her You Tube. Don't believe me? Google Lady Gaga and Google.
Parting punch: A friend of mine, +Spiro Frentzas has a food company that he is launching, as a creative consultant I sit with his team from time to time. One of the biggest trends in new start-up companies and a concept that has been running in the Add-Sales, Marketing worlds is one word. "Gamification" Combined with Kickstarter and you have an on-line game funding a non-tech related business.
C'mon CNBC, wake-up. In the next 20 years the gamers are gonna go IPO, and Wall-street just might miss it.
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