by R.A. Scott

Created on: September 05, 2008

So you love playing games and are growing tired of playing on your own. You have decided you want to use the internet to play games with other people but the only things you have been able to find are sites that deal with hardcore gamers. You know you are not a hardcore gamer because you have no idea what Warcraft is so what do you do? When you like card games and the like are there places for what you refer to as social gaming? Dial into Pogo dot com.

Pogo is a free site that offers a whole lot of gaming fun for you time investment. Pogo has a pay side but you'll want to explore the free area for a good long time before you hop into the pay side of pogo. So you'll need to get used to the silly name, pogo.

Pogo offers a ton of free games including checkers, soccer, various kinds of card games and puzzle games. Golf and bowling and poker gamer games are all here. In fact, you'd e hard pressed to go to pogo and leave without finding any games for you to enjoy. If so then you didn't really want to play any games in the first place.

Social gaming is always a fun thing to do. You can have friends that you look for when you sign in and you can chat or play games with these friends. Or you can simply go and look for someone brand new to play a game with. It's all there for you. Many people simply use social gaming sites like pogo to simply chat and make new friends.

It's all about other people and finding and making new friends. With these friends you can play games or simply chat. Pogo claims to have more than 15 million members, certainly with that many people enjoying pogo you can certainly find someone out there who is similar enough to you that you can make friends with.

To be honest, pogo is not the only social gaming site on the internet but it is one of the better ones. I recall when they were first opening they went into testing mode as sites like this always do. They call this beta testing and I was involved in the beta testing for the site. Having said that, it might be difficult for me to be totally unbiased because I loved the site during the beta test but I haven't been a member for a good while now. It has certainly grown since then and after looking it over again I believe it's even better now than it ever was.

The time for social gaming is now and pogo is the place to be, meet friends and play games. Chat and have fun, it's all there for you. No, pogo is not paying me for this although I think they should.

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