porn > facebook

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"By examining which websites social-network users visit after logging into their profiles, we can gain a bit of insight into how sites like Facebook fit into their members' daily online lives. The data showed that after other social networks, the most clicked-on category of sites was search engines, with 11.6% of all downstream visits. Web-based e-mail services were next with 8.5%. Blogs came in third in popularity at 6.1%, claiming more than four times the number of visits to traditional news sites, which logged 1.5% of downstream visits. Perhaps a more interesting — and more accurate — way to figure out where college students are going online is to assess which of the 172 web categories tracked by Hitwise get the most hits from 18- to 24-year-olds. Here's a shocker: Porn is not No. 1. I've actually been puzzled by the decrease in visits to the Adult Entertainment category over the last two years. Visits to porn sites have dropped from 16.9% of all site visits in the U.S. in October 2005 to 11.9% as of last week, a 33% decline. Currently, for web users over the age of 25, Adult Entertainment still ranks high in popularity, coming in second, after search engines. Not so for 18- to 24-year-olds, for whom social networks rank first, followed by search engines, then web-based e-mail — with porn sites lagging behind in fourth. If you chart the rate of visits to social-networking sites against those to adult sites over the last two years, there appears to be a strong negative correlation (i.e., visits to social networks go up as visits to adult sites go down). It's a leap to say there's a real correlation there, but if there is one, then I'd bet it has everything to do with Gen Y's changing habits: they're too busy chatting with friends to look at online skin."

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1678586,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

11/4/2007 3:39:08 PM

I remember when you used to be able to find all kinds of filth for free. Now everything, even squirting amateur housewives, costs money. That's your explanation, porno sites. It's sort of like why CD sales are down. You can't overcharge for a bad product and expect people to pay what you're asking. I mean sure, I'll pony up for ClubJenna.com, but I'll be damned if I'm going to put up $9.99 for a cockfingering site.

11/4/2007 3:42:45 PM

there are just more normal people online that are getting bwned in real life so they dont need to look at porn

11/4/2007 3:42:52 PM

a) i've never known anyone who has paid for online porn
b) has there been a shift in the social consciousness whereby nerds start getting laid all of a sudden?

[Edited on November 4, 2007 at 3:47 PM. Reason : missed the "normal people"]

11/4/2007 3:46:22 PM

no there's a shift where the normally non-internet users are flooding the tubes with facebook requests

11/4/2007 3:47:07 PM

i concur, porn > facebook.

11/4/2007 3:49:38 PM

growth seems to have been pretty steady

11/4/2007 3:50:04 PM

what does TWW count as?

social networking?
porn?
action news?

11/4/2007 3:50:39 PM

it's a monster unto itself

11/4/2007 3:51:05 PM

Shit, I turn 25 soon.


This means I have to stop looking at myspace and start looking at porn.

11/4/2007 8:11:07 PM

I've never been to myspace and I'm looking at porn every night.

11/4/2007 8:13:12 PM

^^ i approve

[Edited on November 4, 2007 at 8:13 PM. Reason : ^]

11/4/2007 8:13:26 PM

im doing my part

ill check myspace/facebook maybe once a day

and porn a hell of a lot more than that

11/4/2007 8:30:30 PM

I call for a movement to reverse this trend.

11/4/2007 8:59:35 PM