Social Media vs. Porn – Facebook Wins!
Porn. It is and always will be a key element of the Internet – with it accounting for almost 10 percent of all Web searches, according to Hitwise.
But at one point many, many years ago (exactly 10) – a massive 20 percent of all Internet Web searches accounted for porn. However, thanks to sites like Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites, porn on the Internet is not as popular as it used to be – simply put.
Hitwise researchers said that surfing for porn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago – the sites that grab all the searches now are the social networking sites.
The research said that visits to porn sites have decreased, and social networking traffic as increased.
Now, I don’t entirely believe this – to think people are so busy with MySpace that they don’t have time to look at porn. I believe that web growth ‘overall’ has lended mostly to this result, and other changes in the way people utitlize the Internet – that is the true difference.
Point is, the Internet is bigger then ever, and much more people are using it than ever before. And more kids then ever are involved online – so it makes sense that fewer users are looking at porn.
Another point – you can look at Facebook at work, more than you can look at porn. And if your working – chances are your using the web at work, more than you were 10 years ago – before social media websites existed.
