Social Networking Sites Are Now More Popular Than Porn
October 25, 2008 by Clyde Dennis
Filed under Social Marketing
Here’s a recent article I found on the continued rise of Social Networking Websites:
It’s an old joke among web geeks that “the internet is for porn”. OK, so it was invented by the department of defense for the sake of communications, but if there’s one industry that can commodify a resource faster than the oil industry can waste it, it’s porn. It makes sense, too, since sex is both a basic animal (and human) instinct and also something we frown on and obsess over to the extent that it’s frightening. When the internet was young and users were still basically anonymous, there was no better way to indulge in a guilty pleasure than from behind the veil of your monitor.