I read a lot about social media and gamification. Social media are a great platform for people to get and stay in touch with one another, for brands and people to connect, for information to travel freely. Gamification is a way to measure progress and motivate. Especially gamification is however often lambasted for being hollow and cynical. Rebranding real-world goals as game goals, and measuring real-world progress in points is seen by some as a reduction of true interaction.
I don't think it is a reduction. It's more like a restructuring that we
need in order to be happy. Jane McGonigal pointed out in a
TED-talk that people were already playing
