The caterers were late setting up...

Party in the neighborhood! The Sims has officially sold 100 million units.

Seems even Hollywood celebrities love to party the Sims way.

Call up Bob the slob, then call his sexy wife. Call one of the Pleasant kids (If you have the original Sims pack, there aren’t any teenagers in the vicinity), and then watch as his parents swing by around 9 pm to pick him up. Call the Goths. Don’t worry about everyone else: even those you didn’t invite will come anyway. It happens in real life, after all.

The difference is, the Sims party invitation you’re going to create won’t get posted on MySpace or Facebook. At least, I don’t think it would. (If it was Second Life, I wouldn’t be surprised to find it there. And if Second Life hosted a Sims party, I’d start getting worried about mixing up virtual reality and the real world.)

I could probably ask danah boyd about whether or not virtual parties show up on social networking sites. The UC Berkeley-based researcher has made a name for herself – and named herself too – studying these sites, once comparing Friendster with MySpace . By her count, she’s read over 10,000 profiles for research purposes. One piece that got a lot of press was an explanation of why kids heart MySpace.