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Female users are the ones that are behind most of the success of some of the biggest, fastest growing, and most valuable companies in the US. Women now control over 80% of the total consumer spending of the US, which is equal to about FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS (Lee). Why should the gaming industry follow the film industry’s lead in terms of marketing to women? Because women control the purse strings of the US economy. I have found that there are many different factors that may play into women playing games either online or on a playstation, as well as many different factors that have led to women’s unbelievable amount of buying power and also why women are so drawn to social media and make up the majority of users on all social media sites. While I started out making this blog as a way to research social media’s role in gaming amongst women, I have found that it is rather narrow to just discuss social gaming and what has caused such an upsurge among women. I have also read that women are only playing social games because they would rather be playing games on gaming consoles but the portrayals of women and the gender stereotypes on console games have driven them to social gaming. I have also read that women are only playing social games so much to get rid of all of the stress in their lives because women are incapable of handling stress in as efficient a manner as men are. I have read that social media and social gaming is just an outlet for all of the things that women already loved to do and had inside them but just couldn’t because there was no outlet for them to do so. Throughout this semester, reading all of these articles online and posting to my blog I have been bombarded by tons of differing viewpoints on women in gaming and women and gaming in general. That being said I think even if we wanted to deny the impact gaming has had on our culture we couldn’t so we might as well embrace it and realise that it is broadening our horizons and making the world a better place to be. Gaming has been around forever and has evolved from games like “ Mancala” in the Pacific Southeast to “ World of Warcraft” where people from Minnesota are in the same clan as people from the Ukraine. I hope to remain involved with everything pertaining to gaming and pertaining to women and gaming and hopefully I have convinced a few of the girls in the class who have read this to pick up a controller or go visit the app store. For huge and important reasons like the positive impact it will have on the US and the world’s economies to small and personal reasons like just men and women having more things in common. Hopefully my blog posts have shown you that there is no sign of the women in gaming trend slowing down and that this is a very positive thing for everybody. Overall it has been a very rewarding experience to read all of these different opinions on the subject and combine them with many of the opinions that I already held on the matter.