I have a bone to pick with some of the statistics floating around in the news. Okay...it's actually just one statistic and my mother will be horrified to read this but I need to get this out!
A recent statistic claims that social networking sites are not the number one use of internet.
I DO NOT AND WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS! EVER!
I'm sorry, but there's just no way that porn- the thing that has dominated the internet since it was born- would be taken over by Facebook.
Seriously- I refuse to believe it.
Now, I can understand the concept of social networking sites getting more traffic- Facebook alone probably has more unique users per day than all the porn combined. This makes sense, as it's accessible to people of all ages and generally won't offend the crazy old hairy bald guy walking behind you while you enjoy some internet.
But, the majority of the time it's a brief check to respond to an invite, look at a picture or post one was tagged in, or to upload pictures or whatnot.
The other 97% of the time you're on a porn website with Facebook open just for funsies.
I mean...come on. We're actually just a generation of creepers. We sometimes spend hours creeping around on profiles or through pictures, but I would say that's a small portion of Facebook users.
And they're just too embarrassed to watch porn...or they have no friends and have already watched all the porn.
But porn requires attention. You're certainly not going to spend an hour downloading a video- risking the health of your computer- just to have it on in the background.
Not to mention that there's so much more than just videos! There's all kinds of written smut on the internet, all kinds of comics and images in general that I would bet my nonexistent love life get more, uh, quality time than any social networking site.
But yeah, I guess my overall point is that while social networking sites may get a gazillion hits per day, they will never uproot porn from its place at the top.
