Are you a Facebook member? Then you have at least seen those fascinating icons shown below or even played one of the multiple Facebook games.

The main peculiarity of such games is that they are social games which means a lot of people are involved into the playing process at the same time so the more you play the greater the number of your friends in the net. You can communicate while playing and cooperate with other gamers in order to achieve one collective goal.

The huge majority of various games on Facebook can be split into different acknowledged genres such as Action, Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Shooting, Sports, Fighting, Strategy, Casino, Board Game, Driving and others.

Some of the most popular games are shown in below table.

FarmVille 

Tired of urban life? Then it’s the right game for you! Just imagine you have a farm of your own with plenty of marvelous fruit trees, a vegetable garden and funny animals

Café World

Feel like changing your office suit and trying to run a café? This game will help you change your job at least imaginary…

Mafia Wars

Crazy about Puzo’s novels? Imagine yourself a Godfather and defend your huge family against all possible enemies

Happy Aquarium

Are you longing to have an aquarium of your own but are out of time to afford it in reality? Then enjoy feeding nice little fish and watch them playing in the water

Pet Society

Want a pet but can’t afford it? Join the Pet Society and have fun

YoVille

Think your life is a bit too boring? Entertain yourself by living an imaginary life in a figment land of YoVille

Zynga Poker 

Are you a poker player? Then this game is for you

Farm Town

Never have anything except a small flat? Built up the farm of your dream

Restaurant City

Got bad service at a local restaurant? Try to create your perfect one

MindJolt Games

Want some change? Choose one of over 500 games from this source. Different genres are provided, satisfaction guaranteed
As you can see from the table some of the games are similar in genre and stylistic so to say. There are games where you can build an imaginary farm or design a restaurant of your dream, or live in a figment land… Which inference can be drawn from this information? Not so favorable, I should say. People use a fairy world of the game in order to escape the real world which is often considered to be cruel and unattractive.

If you see the statistics you will probably be greatly impressed by some crucial figures about Facebook games. The information shown on www.allfacebook.com is based on 2009-2010 statistics. It strikes by the huge numbers, for example,

• 53% of over 500 million Facebook users play games
• 19% consider themselves addicted
• 56 million people play daily
• 290 million people play monthly
• Approximately 3.5 hours spent by one gamer per month on playing

This actually looks like a world game-mania.

It’s good, of course, that people can communicate being separated by kilometers, they get to know each other even if they accommodate in different countries of the world, they can share their views on various subjects and learn to listen to each other and understand their opponents better. And this is a real light side of the question.

However if playing overwhelms you and you feel you cannot live a single day without even peeping into your favorite game to know what is going on there, then it’s time for your to stop and think whether it is worth it, if you really need it or you are just trying to escape from your own life. Perhaps it’s the time to solve your everyday problems and design your own life in a new style? 

If you are interested in online games for kids you may go straight to Amor Games site. There you will find a vast majority of free online games fit to different tastes and thousands of players ready to run a game or communicate at multiple forums.

All Amor Games are classified into seven main categories:

• Action games
• Adventure games
• Arcade games
• Shooting games
• Puzzle and Skill games
• Strategy games 
• Sports games.

It is actually not so easy to define a top list of Amor Games as there are different criteria to the game’s ranking, for instance, there are lifetime leaders (100 games highest rated games), last month leaders (25 games) or current leaders (25 games) appointed by the site, and it is really hard to say which list will reflect the actual state of things.

Therefore here we thought of another classification based on the category criterion: the table below shows top three games in each category of Amor Gamesand give a short review of each game.

If we compare the number of plays the games of each category have been played then the first place will definitely take the Action games category with over 22,4 million of plays as concerns only one version of the top game of our list (Crush the Castle). Then comes the Adventure category with its over 8,7 million of the top game plays, the Strategy category – over 3,8 million,  Shooting – over 3,5 million, Arcade – over 3,3 million, Puzzle & Skill – over 2,7 million and Sports – over 2,2 million.