Showing posts with label porn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label porn. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Facebook vs Porn

Facebook wins.

From Reuters:


Bill Tancer, a self-described "data geek," has analyzed information for over 10 million web users to conclude that we are, in fact, what we click, with Internet searches giving an up-to-date view of how society and people are changing.
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Tancer, in his new book, "Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters," said analyzing web searches did not just reflect what was happening online but gave a wider picture of society and people's behavior.

"There are some patterns to our Internet use that we tend to repeat very specifically and predictably, from diet searches, to prom dresses, to what we do around the holidays," Tancer told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise, an Internet tracking company, said one of the major shifts in Internet use in the past decade had been the fall off in interest in pornography or adult entertainment sites.

He said 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.

"As social networking traffic has increased, visits to porn sites have decreased," said Tancer, indicated that the 18-24 year old age group particularly was searching less for porn.

"My theory is that young users spend so much time on social networks that they don't have time to look at adult sites."

I propose a different theory: They decided to stop watching sex and actually have it. Succesful social networking does increase one's odds after all.

H/T The Daily Dish

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Who'd have guessed?

I recently pointed out an article about porn being so commonplace that real women were now viewed as bad porn. I ran across this article from the NY Times that the internet is now so glutted with free amateur porn that traditional purveyors of pornography are taking a 30 to 40% hit in profits because:

“The barrier to get into the industry is so low: you need a video camera and a couple of people who will have sex,” full article

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Of Note

I ran across this recent article The Porn Myth which comes to a rather disturbing conclusion..

“For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn.”

check it out here