Friday, September 19, 2008
What's the younger generation coming to?
[Reuters] Social networking sites now are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography...Those are the high hormone years! What are these kids going to be like when they're 50?
Bill Tancer ... in his new book, "Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters," said analyzing web searches did not just reflect what was happening online but gave a wider picture of society and people's behavior.
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...
"As social networking traffic has increased, visits to porn sites have decreased," said Tancer, indicating that the 18-24 year old age group particularly was searching less for porn...
