Games Online

Do you have a favorite website where you go to play games online?
Do you pay for it or is it free?

I have always used MSN games. Don't ask why, just seems to be one of those sites I came across early on, enjoyed what I played on there, liked the variety and have continued, when I remember, to use it.
It is a free site, with about 85% of the games being able to be played to a certain level online immediately. You then also have the option of downloading a free trial. this lasts for about 6-12 hours and from what I can remember the last time we did this, many years ago, you can only ever download a trial once per game.
You do also have the option to buy the game. Most games cost $19.95 but if you commit to buying 2 games in 2 months or 4 games in 4 months then the price per game starts to drop.
We have purchased a few of the games over the years, about 4 I think, and we have had enormous fun from having them immediately to hand on the computer. The boys have loved playing them and they are ones that it is easy to loose the time of day with.

The boys like the website Friv, which has some weird and wonderful little games. I don't know about what services are available on this site or whether it is just purely an online site for games.

My mother plays on a site from England I think and she pays a small fee for the year. Really must remember to get the address from her again one time, although once she reads this post it will probably be in the comments!

So where do you play, what great sites do you know about that you would be willing to share with us all?
And I mean sites specific to games, not those on Facebook that need friends to be able to play!

Facebook

Oh that great big world wide web site that everyone finds their childhood friends on.

I was on Facebook about 18 months ago, but was sick of the constant emails that came with it of people asking me to take this test, or that test, or was I compatible with so and so.

I could never navigate myself around their site easily, I didn't understand what was so great about it and in fact I wasn't that bothered by it.

So I deactivated my account and left it at that.

In the last month or so I seem to have heard a lot about Facebook and decided to go check it out.

Yes I reactivated my account....

Things have changed, for the better, it is nicer to use, I can find what I need to do easier, finding friends is not difficult, in fact I now have quite a few friends, and I thought nobody loved me!

I have found people I knew from over 13 years ago and people who I was sad about loosing contact with.

Some I am so happy to have found again, some I just want to rush over to the other side of the world and give great big hugs to and others well it is just nice to catch up with where they are at and what they are doing.

So I am now on Facebook, ok, not in an over active way. I am not pouring out every little thing I do on there, I have a few pictures on there for people to see, I have a link to my blog so people can catch up with what we are up to more regularly and that will be were it stands for now.

Maybe one day I will investigate what else there is out there to do on Facebook, but for now I am just having a happy week catching up with some very old lost friends.