Along those lines
“[With certain social games] it’s about the game exploiting your friends list that you already made, so it’s not really about meeting people. And it’s not really about doing things with them because you’re never playing at the same time. It’s about using your friends as resources to progress in the game, which is the opposite of actual sociality or friendship. Maybe not exactly, but it’s not the same thing, right? They’re really just called social games because they run on social networks.” – The creator of the game “Braid”
Funny, that’s just what Metroid Prime 3 had – you could exploit your friends to get more tokens to buy elements in the game (music, sketches, etc), but that’s not interaction.
Same thing goes with Facebook games, for the large part.