Less people are searching for porn?

[webpimp]

Here's an interesting article about the new book "Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters".

I read a review for this book a few weeks back and wondered if any research was done on adult search trends. It looks like they did come to some findings about porn searches:

From this article in Reuters:

Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru.
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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."

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[Hacker Jack]

i read that too.
my feeling is that if porn searches havent dropped number wise just percentage wise. Over ten years the number of searches performed a day has undoubtedly increased and possibly doubled whereas the number of searches for porn has remained the same. The number of users has certainly risen and in this country at least more and more teens are going online to social network. Mostly teen girls it seems to me, who have a lower interest in naked ladies than middle aged men.
im guessing mind you, i am only 21 after all..........

[mnrvov]

HJ- you look damn fine for 21. Now you gotta figure out how to get that hat on backwards to you fit in with the crowd....rotflmao!

[webpimp]

That's a good point HJ, there are more people coming online everyday. Also I would think that there is a much wider selection of sites to choose from nowadays too.

But the funny part (me also being an expert on what teenies do online) is that all these social network sites have tons of ads and banners for pseudo-dating sites (aka softcore porn). And I'm sure a ton of those young people go to those social networking sites to try to hook up with girls and guys.

[garcia]

Originally Posted by webpimp

But the funny part (me also being an expert on what teenies do online) is that all these social network sites have tons of ads and banners for pseudo-dating sites (aka softcore porn). And I'm sure a ton of those young people go to those social networking sites to try to hook up with girls and guys.

And now we know why most of my latest efforts have been softcore or completely non-nude-----stuff you can promote on social sites.

[hyballs]

The number of computer users is increasing as individual wealth increases and the cost computers and of going on-line decreases. That in itself is why the percentage has changed.

HJ hit on it with the numbers going to social sites. 5 years ago they just weren't around like they are now!

[Hacker Jack]

Originally Posted by hyballs

HJ hit on it with the numbers going to social sites. 5 years ago they just weren't around like they are now!

well genius that i am, lol, to be fair in the article webpimp was talking about they make the same point. I just think that more kids are online these days and as such are gravitating towards social networks like facebook etc. whilst the number sof people looking for porn has stayed relatively the same. I think its a mistake to say the porn hunters are dropping though, just that the extra users online arent after porn is all.

[Hacker Jack]

Originally Posted by mnrvov

HJ- you look damn fine for 21. Now you gotta figure out how to get that hat on backwards to you fit in with the crowd....rotflmao!

damn the hat sure is a giveaway lol however i notice form rhetes avatar that i am setting a trend

[Hacker Jack]

Originally Posted by garcia

And now we know why most of my latest efforts have been softcore or completely non-nude-----stuff you can promote on social sites.

im still very uneasy about promoting anything that is not 100% mainstream to social networks aimed at school children. Even teen dating sites.
Maybe Im over cautious

[Tiani]

Originally Posted by Hacker Jack

im still very uneasy about promoting anything that is not 100% mainstream to social networks aimed at school children. Even teen dating sites.
Maybe Im over cautious

I think it depends on the Social site - whether networking or bookmarking for a start.
But Stumbleupon, for example, has an 'adult' section, so you can mark your links as adult (or whatever they call it) when you submit them.
And blog networks like Yahoo's MyBlogLog also have a section for adult blogs, so they know that people promote them and people are searching for them.

And going way off topic here... the only thing I would say about all that social traffic is that I have found it hardly ever converts - just gets you thrown offline for using up hosting resources if your blog is suddenly 'stumbled' in its thousands, and unless it's somewhere like Mr Wong and a few others, the backlinks are all nofollow anyway.