social networking now more popular than porn
Written by Aron Strong on September 16, 2008 – 8:47 am -Can you believe it? A decade ago, the only reason (I was told) people used the internet was to access porn. For 10 years porn has still been the hottest (pardon the expression) searched and visited topic on the web.
Well, it’s finally happened. The reign of porn appears to be over. Or at least failing.
“…surfing for porn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago, and the hottest Internet searches now are for social networking sites,” says Bill Tancer in his new book Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters
Now I know many of you still don’t fully get this whole social networking thing. You’re just discovering Facebook. And many of you think you just don’t have time for Twitter.
But I’m here to tell you, this is the future. And, unlike the prior internet king, this one has the potential to enrich your life, not destroy it.
Then again, people get addicted to all kinds of things. Moderation- it’s a wonderful thing.
To help explain to you folks who still don’t get the whole social network thing, here’s a stripped down explanation of social networking.
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