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03-20-2014, 04:51 AM
Facebook: 375 Million Users Play Games Each Month
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If it seems like you just can't stop playing Candy Crush Saga (http://mashable.com/category/candy-crush-saga/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) or any other Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) games, don't worry, you're in good company — a lot of good company
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Wednesday, Facebook revealed (https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2014/03/19/facebook-at-gdc-2014/) some more of the kind of eye-popping stats you get on a network with 1.3 billion monthly active users. For example, roughly a quarter of all its active users — 375 million people — play at least one Facebook-connected game in an average month.
See also: These People Are Making the Creator of 'Candy Crush' Rich (http://mashable.com/2014/02/20/candy-crush-saga-addicts/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Meanwhile, those occasionally an**ying requests you get from friends to play games with them are even more prevalent. Some 735 million of such game referrals are sent out each day, according to Facebook. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/19/facebook-games-stats/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Facebook Games (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-games/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Gaming (http://mashable.com/gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Candy Crush Saga (http://mashable.com/category/candy-crush-saga/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/BfThmq-Pgqg
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If it seems like you just can't stop playing Candy Crush Saga (http://mashable.com/category/candy-crush-saga/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) or any other Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) games, don't worry, you're in good company — a lot of good company
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Wednesday, Facebook revealed (https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2014/03/19/facebook-at-gdc-2014/) some more of the kind of eye-popping stats you get on a network with 1.3 billion monthly active users. For example, roughly a quarter of all its active users — 375 million people — play at least one Facebook-connected game in an average month.
See also: These People Are Making the Creator of 'Candy Crush' Rich (http://mashable.com/2014/02/20/candy-crush-saga-addicts/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Meanwhile, those occasionally an**ying requests you get from friends to play games with them are even more prevalent. Some 735 million of such game referrals are sent out each day, according to Facebook. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/19/facebook-games-stats/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Facebook Games (http://mashable.com/category/facebook-games/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Gaming (http://mashable.com/gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Candy Crush Saga (http://mashable.com/category/candy-crush-saga/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/BfThmq-Pgqg