In 2010 Facebook showed the power of social networking by beating Google as the most visited website. Social networking proves to be such a powerhouse that many websites are getting into the act. Games are finding this as excellent method to get many people involved in social interaction while increasing the action.

One of the main sites that are doing this is online gambling. Games offer a great opportunity to meet people and stay in touch with friends while having fun. For example bingo has always been a fun and exciting method of playing a game, making money, and hanging out with a friend. Users can go to an online bingo room with other friends and experience the game with them, while making some extra cash on the side.

In this new global world, staying close to friends can be a trying thing. Yet social gaming may provide a method find time with friends while also having a fun experience. Free bingo and gaming sites offer an excellent opportunity for the user to enjoy themselves while having quality time with a friend or loved one.

While the world is moving in many directions, the speed and global network that the internet carries may be extended to bring together people from far away in a fun and entertaining fashion. Online bingo, brings a social activity that many have played before, to the global networking capabilities of the internet. Many are taking a fun game from the community centers to the online forum as an excellent method of interacting, making friends and staying in touch with friends that live anywhere from across the street to around the globe. Perhaps the next time you think of sending a facebook message, you might decide that playing an online game might be a fun and enjoyable way of spending time with that person.

A new phenomenon is taking over the UK that is bringing people out by storm. Bingo, or Rebel Bingo to be exact, has given the party to the UK bingo people. With one of the rules of the club being, “no boring people”, this is clearly not your grandma’s game.

Rebel Bingo has spread to all around the UK and even internationally, going into New York, Las Vegas and Madrid, Spain. The bingo games look more like raves or concerts than actual bingo games but with the high popularity of the form, it seems like bingo, in itself, is becoming available as a party like atmosphere.

Due to the bingo invasion in the city youth, more and more young people are going on online bingo and making their presence heard. It wouldn’t be surprising if a free bingo website aimed at partying launched soon that allowed people to gamble on bingo as well as set up the next underground party!

While the parties for these things are secret with “no cameras or photography allowed,” their location is only given through online bingo underground sites. Users have to find the site and purchase tickets, usually only a couple pound or dollars depending on the location. Then they receive an email a couple days before the date to tell them the where to go. And, they definitely try to warn you that “if you don’t like loud music, dancing or shouting…don’t come.”

With underground bingo, it’s amazing to see the different form that bingo can take in reaching new audiences. Although this is probably not a bingo game that your grandmother is going to rock out at, it’s a fun, rockin interpretation of the game that will probably bring in more people who like the game. And with the great popularity of underground bingo, it seems that this new, rocking version of the game is here to stay for a good amount of time.

Forget mobile Scrabble games and spelling bee pub nights, the latest competitive classic to see an adult revival is bingo.

Bingo nights have been venturing inside pubs as of late, but they’re not necessarily your granny’s bingo game. Instead of simple numbers on a card, organisers are putting quirky images or answers that players must guess or identify with based on questions asked by the night’s host. Sometimes themes include music, television, politics or personal truth-or-dare type of revelations that players must share with fellow competitors in order to make a line and win.

These popular nights are not only retro in the game itself, but also in the concept of people connecting with a room full of strangers and friends in an age when most do a great deal of their socializing via computer.

Magazines and websites have even started putting out bingo cards based on current high rated television shows, where viewers can play along with the plot to mark boxes, like whenever a detective “runs real fast” or “breaks police brutality laws” on the new “Hawaii Five-O.”

The “bingo hall” is still around as well, but the concept has seen a revamp. Some bingo halls act more as lounges, where cocktails and appetizers are served, and people can mingle in a less-intimidating atmosphere than the average clubby singles scene.

And of course, like all classic games, there are loads of versions that can be played online and downloaded to your mobile phones. Whereas live bingo games have pots that rarely exceed £500, online games can earn players tens of thousands of pounds. To create that “real life” bingo feel, many sites are built with optimal graphics and chat capabilities, giving players a virtual sense of community.

With 3.2 million Britons new to online bingo last year, and millions more playing the game in some sort of fashion, it doesn’t look like the B-I-N-G-O trend will be ending any time soon.

The bingo phenomenon has no doubt swept the U.K., and now there’s been mention that bingo may soon hit American shores.

In December, U.S. Congress attempted to pass a bill that would legalise and regulate online gambling in the country. Though the bill did not go through, political experts say that it was just “testing the water,” and it may only be a matter of time that a better, more specific bill is drafted that will make online gambling, and hence online bingo, legal. Proponents of the bill suggest their biggest failure was that the bill was rushed through the Senate at the end of the year’s legislative session.

As major U.K. and European gambling companies agree with U.S.’s no gambling law, smaller, harder-to-track companies in different parts of the world aren’t necessarily as eager to comply. It is estimated that $5 billion exits the U.S. every year in offshore gambling, a market that U.K.- and European-based gambling companies would love to venture into and the American government would also love to regulate.

The inverse effect of the U.S. and the U.K.’s gambling relationship is that America’s current biggest gambling institution is prepared to try its hand at bingo in the U.K.

Harrah’s-owned Caesars Bingo is preparing a current launch sometime during the year. Although the internet bingo market is already crowded, Caesars is confident it will do well because of it name — Caesars Casino is one of the largest operations in Las Vegas and Harrah’s has casinos all over the world.

Meanwhile, major U.K.-based bingo sites are not too worried. While tons of new bingo sites started up last year, reputable ones that have proven their stamina remain strong. Plus demand for bingo is still growing strong, as hundreds, possibly thousands, of new bingo players continue to sign up every day.