Social Networking with Gamer's In Mind

Everyone has heard of Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.  We know these sites to be some of the better known forms of social networking.  And yes, in some form or another console and PC gamers alike have the functionality to use these services from theor preferred platforms.  But what if you're Facebok friends just don't understand your affinity for gaming?  What if you had a friend post times for a raid in WoW and your non gamer friends start thinking your in a cult with it's own special language?  Where you go to be "understood"?

There is a whole genre of social networking sites dedicated to gamers.So, as if listening to smack talk during a round of CoD isn't enough for you, you can talk about games all the time on these social sites.  So I am going to spend the next 30 days using a couple of these services to see what their deal is.  So,e of the things I am going to look at are practicality (how practical is it to use these services in the first place), is there the capability to match user's up based on what games they play, how open are these communities to new people coming in, and they a fun experience, do they allow you to share videos or pictures on your profile (or equivalent).  Lastly, do them spam you with advertisements and are they user friendly in design.

I'll update with the list of services I'll be trying out tomorrow.  If anybody out there currently uses one of these social services post a comment and let us know.  Remember, these are gaming centric social networking services, so anything but Facebook has to be suggested.

Happy Surfing!