U.K. Study: Social Media More Popular Than Porn
 

U.K. web surfers prefer social networking over sex sites.
According to statistics from web analytics firm Experian Hitwise, sites like Facebook surpass entertainment outlets that include porn websites in British Internet usage charts.

The Experian study ? Carpe diem - Seizing the Moment in Social Media ? revealed that social networking sites received more than 2.4 billion hits from U.K. users accounting for 12.46 percent, or almost one eighth of all U.K. web visits.

Brits also spend more time on each visit to a social network logging in an average of 22 minutes in January with Facebook attracting 56 percent of the traffic.

"While social networks of course compete amongst themselves for users, many of those users have a presence on multiple networks," said Robin Goad, Experian Hitwise's research director.

He added, "One in every eight people leaving a social network visits another one immediately after, something that is encouraged by the connections that exist between the networks. Facebook, for example, is a key source of traffic for many smaller social networks; while almost a fifth of people leaving Twitter go on to visit another social network."

But despite the social media frenzy, the report said that e-commerce isn?t benefiting from site referrals as much as they could.

Social-networking sites sent just 16 percent of their traffic to sites selling goods in January 2011, compared with the 33 percent sent from search engines.

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yeah i know, some poeple here pay for fucking social media tokens :)

Adam I will let you into a secret.

Meeting people and conversing with them was always more popular than porn.

i know, i know

DVTimes = possibly the stupidest cunt who ever learned to breathe and type at the same time. Fact.

I think I could hold my breathe long enough to copy and paste a news item so maybe he can't breathe and type.

With any luck at all he will forget to be able to do one or the other asap

British people is so fucking crazy so I don´t believe it :)

Which is one of the reasons we as an industry are widely perceived as gross men in dirty raincoats; loners and people who don't have friends or networks or social interaction.

When will the rest of the world realise that the community buying porn IS the community? Your neighbours are the sex workers you seek out, the amateurs filming themselves having sex, the freaky folk tying one another to the bedposts. We're not a different community - we're a part of the community in which we all move.

Why don't we embrace that more?

Our industry is being hammered right now because of the economy and because of Facebook. I've often said Facebook and a handful of other sites (Ebay, Myspace, Youtube) suck down more than 60% of all Internet traffic. That's 60% of our potential customer base GONE before they so much as click on their mouse. Combined with illegal tubes, torrents, free porn, AND a bad economy, and it's going to be rough for us.

Yup, the zomby generation came out of age - porn is out and Facebook is in...

lol, Rochard beat me to it

there is a bit of truth behind every stereotype:

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Of course it's more fun to interact with people, maybe meet them in person and get laid.

With live cam porn we are the next best thing I suppose.

Cyber sex is "safe sex" so long as your wife doesn't catch you ... :winkwink::winkwink:

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