Google Must Buy Zynga to Gain Leverage Vs. Facebook

http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content…_facebook.html
Google Must Buy Zynga to Gain Leverage Vs. Facebook
Despite the invitations to play Farmville, Mafia Wars and other "social games" on Facebook, I have stubbornly resisted joining.
I don’t play games on Facebook but it’s not because I have anything against Zynga, which by all accounts makes great social online games. I don’t play video games period, pretty much not since I was 15, after which I gave up games to ogle girls.
I say ogle because I don’t talk or interact much with girls then either. I’m a bit of a lonerish, antisocial stick-in-the-mud, though I hope believe at 35 a little too young to be considered a curmudgeon.
But as a casual observer the Facebook-Zynga connection has been nothing short of a phenomenon.
Roughly one quarter of my Facebook friends seem to be playing Farmville or Mafia Wars through Facebook as a way to blow off steam or interact with friends from […]

See original post by ColinSick