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Facebook Is Better Than Porn

Facebook is hotter than me Time has an interesting article that states that Generation Y craves electronic social networking more than electronic porn. Stating:

… [a] 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. Imagine.

Facebook and those involved with OpenSocial must love the thought of such numbers. Now I’m beginning to see why Facebook is worth billions of dollars. (as opposed to billions of monkeys) Who’d have thought buddy lists and comment walls would beat down nudity and sex. The pornography industry must be shaking in their shoes.

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  1. Zach says

    Ahh, but they ignore the fact that porn is available now in more convenient ways that aren’t directly web sites. For instance, NetFlix-type services exist that deliver high quality DVD porn anonymously. Or, file sharing service, like BitTorrent or LimeWire and deliver quality content on demand without annoying ads, popups, and viruses.

    So as Web 2.0 emerges, people will look their for their porn needs. Categorization and tracking just hasn’t caught up.

  2. Justin says

    Certainly they must be able to track the number of seeders, leechers and data transfered by content type. Torrent sites are already doing this, the data just needs to be broken down by demographic and compared to social networks.

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  10. tu madre says

    facebook is shit stupid and every body can see everything its the most retarded web chat page thingy made yet

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  24. bolinatij says

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Continuing the Discussion

  1. Facebook Is Better Than Porn » Window Shopping for Women Blog linked to this post on February 24, 2008

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  2. Window Shopping for Women » Blog Archive » Facebook Is Better Than Porn linked to this post on October 29, 2008

    [...] … [a] 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. Imagine.Facebook and those involved with OpenSocial must love the thought of such numbers. Now I’m beginning to see why Facebook is worth billions of dollars. (as opposed to billions of monkeys) Who’d have thought buddy lists and comment walls would beat down nudity and sex. The pornography industry must be shaking in their shoes. Source: http://borkweb.com/story/facebook-is-better-than-porn [...]

  3. Window Shopping for Women » Blog Archive » Facebook Is Better Than Porn linked to this post on November 13, 2008

    [...] 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. Imagine.Facebook and those involved with OpenSocial must love the thought of such numbers. Now I’m beginning to see why Facebook is worth billions of dollars. (as opposed to billions of monkeys) Who’d have thought buddy lists and comment walls would beat down nudity and sex. The pornography industry must be shaking in their shoes. Source: http://borkweb.com/story/facebook-is-better-than-porn [...]



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