Every now and then whenever my bosses ask me what areas we need to move into to generate more income, I jokingly say we should move into porn as that’s where the real action (sic) is on the web. I nearly did launch an adult channel once in an old job, when my boss and I were working on ‘Project X’.
Well, according to Hitwise usage of social networking sites has now overtaken looking at porn as the number one activity on the net. They found that 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 guess there are lots of happy parents out there, who don’t have to worry as much about what their young sons are getting up to in their rooms.
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