[Air-L] facebook more popular than porn?

[Suely Fragoso]

Charles

My strongest suspicion is that there is no correlation between these two sets of data. However, the sentence

>they're too busy chatting with friends to
> look at online skin. Imagine.

reminded me of the many Brazilian sex professionals who have discovered the marketing potencial of Orkut. 

Sue


>>> charles.ess at gmail.com 13/11/07 16:51 >>>
Readers of Time Magazine must have noted the claim by Bill Tancer:

> 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.

He's drawing on data from his own company, Hitwise -

the full story is available online:

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1678586,00.html

thoughts and comments?

- charles

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