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Facebook is More Popular than Porn

time.com — An analysis of web-surfing data suggests that Gen Y-ers would rather spend their time with Facebook than with sex...

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  • thinkingserious, on 11/14/2007, -6/+365What about those who use facebook as a platform to get sex?
    • sotopheavy, on 11/05/2007, -36/+5"platform to get sex?" You're putting the P*ssy on a pedestal man. haha A platform to get sex used to be a lifeguard stand. or a strip club stage.
      • richardiscool, on 11/05/2007, -8/+20You're watching too many ***** American films man.
        • chrisgnv, on 11/05/2007, -3/+2Oh, shut the ***** up; 40-year Old Virgin is not a ***** movie.
        • ShinRaTDR, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1It was easily the worst of all those judd apatow movies.
      • PorcupineTree, on 11/05/2007, -1/+15I think you've just gone and contradicted yourself; I dunno about you, but getting a Facebook is a hell of a lot easier than becoming a lifeguard or having the body to be a stripper.
      • SierraAlpha, on 11/04/2007, -3/+1I get the reference but the word platform wasn't used in that way and you're a retard.
      • jermyang, on 11/04/2007, -3/+2you're retarded, a platform doesn't mean a pedestal, it means a medium, or a modus operandi you dumbass.
    • chillypacman, on 11/05/2007, -19/+1haha, no.

      I know.

      I've tried

      /sarcasm

      Well I haven't actually but thats an interesting question you put forward.
    • PorcupineTree, on 11/06/2007, -3/+19Well, it seems to be quite difficult for Generation-Y to get any without one these days, so that sounds reasonable; You don't have a personality unless you post it all over Facebook, amirite?
    • mcduckov, on 11/05/2007, -1/+8Maybe. So far I've had way better luck on the dedicated dating websites than lurking around facebook, myspace, etc.
    • chyya, on 11/04/2007, -8/+2smart marketing campaign by facebook. making all these allegations to create a hype. i still think facebook is less superior to myspace but its still a nice network
      • Audacitor, on 11/04/2007, -1/+3Meh, I still say Facebook is a just MySpace with functional CSS. I've tried it, had it for a month, peaked at 87 friends, and then went through the 40 some odd steps to actually get my profile taken down. Don't plan on returning until college, when I might be able to actually put it to use.
      • Syphon8, on 11/04/2007, -1/+7Facebook > MySpace 1000x over.
        • badjoke, on 11/05/2007, -0/+6Myspace is copying the things I like about facebook which is making me happy. It has picture tagging with actual draggable boxes and now you can filter your friends list by online/new/etc. And although allowing HTML certainly allows for some ugly ass pages made by 12 year olds, I still find it a lot better looking and easier to view than facebook's busy pages.

          The apps just made the pages more stupid. It's so much fun to go in everyday and delete 15 notifications asking if I want a stupid vampire/werewolf/pirate/ninja game.
        • sv650touring, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2[any site other than MySpace] > Myspace
    • AzBats, on 11/05/2007, -2/+55sex != porn
      • chessmaster2000, on 11/05/2007, -2/+1"sex != porn"

        ...because if you understand this comment, all you'll get is porn
    • Disneyisevil50, on 11/05/2007, -0/+13...to get sex? Tell me more
    • skealoha86, on 11/05/2007, -1/+35Stalk, stalk, stalk, then pounce when "xxx is now Single" pops up in the News Feed
    • vigorously, on 11/04/2007, -1/+2Oddly enough, I was thinking of the same thing....
    • JapaneseEconomy, on 11/05/2007, -1/+0They don't realize the reason its more popular than porn sites is cuz everyone who has a computer in that age demography is now using bittorrent to get their porn. Why pay for it when you can get it for free?
  • Nightlie, on 11/07/2007, -6/+156"An analysis of web-surfing data suggests that Gen Y-ers would rather spend their time with Facebook than with sex..."

    Sex requires two people in order for it to work :D

    • sotopheavy, on 11/05/2007, -4/+12Maybe because spending time on facebook requires less... physical activity. You know how kids are lazy!
      • ChromaVita, on 11/05/2007, -0/+13It only requires the physical activity if you're on top.
    • Nougat, on 11/05/2007, -2/+9Not necessarily.
    • palmdoc, on 11/05/2007, -1/+38We can still poke each other ;)
    • ch33sehead, on 11/04/2007, -3/+1I think ya'll missed Nightlie's point. porn != sex.
    • maloventevil, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1i lold.
  • FameMoney, on 11/05/2007, -19/+3Facebooks more popular because this is how p0rn can become reality.
    • doctorfungi, on 11/05/2007, -1/+34Find a chick on Facebook that'll let you blow on her face when you go to clean her pool and I'll give you $20
      • doctorfungi, on 11/05/2007, -0/+33Wait, if Paris Hilton has a Facebook account, I retract my offer.
  • WorkingDead, on 11/14/2007, -4/+227No, it's not.
    • ablez3, on 11/08/2007, -0/+28the author obviously never heard of a thing called TABS.

    • hackmyballs, on 11/04/2007, -11/+4In all cases, MySpace would be, they triple *****'s traffic.

      I smell "pay per post" here
      • adeadwaffle, on 11/08/2007, -4/+1Wait wait... You think Myspace is better than Facebook!? WTF!
        • birdieb23, on 11/08/2007, -0/+5no he said it gets more traffic and it does get more traffic.

          and they are both stupid in their own ways

          myspace ugly profiles

          facebook too many useless apps
    • darkamster07, on 11/05/2007, -0/+20nothing is more popular than pr0n, so it has been, and so it will be.
      • Scorps111, on 11/08/2007, -7/+2WTF is pr0n, i have heard of porn but nor pr0n, hmm is tht some sort of homosexual alien porn?
  • mayan, on 11/14/2007, -2/+110LIES
  • mrchinchin25, on 11/04/2007, -12/+3hmmm facepork
    • Dundasbro, on 11/04/2007, -6/+6Nice, now I have a title for the video me and your mum made last night.
  • cyberdork, on 11/07/2007, -33/+39I spend a large part of my day on the web and I still have to come across a facebook page.
    Facebook is popular in the US, but anywhere else in the world it's basically unknown.
    • nerdieboy, on 11/05/2007, -1/+36Plenty of people seem to use it in London - I can't speak for the rest of the UK.
      • tizz66, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2That's probably because to Facebook, London is the only place in the UK. Maybe one of these days they'll actually add more networks... I won't hold my breath!
    • alextolman, on 11/05/2007, -1/+21Not true, it's incredibly popular in Europe and within the various international expat circles as well. There are almost 112,000 members belonging to the United Arab Emirates network alone.
      • Breepee, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Havn't seen any use of it here in the NL. Probably because of hyves.nl, a local but similar kind of website.
    • groovechamp30, on 11/04/2007, -0/+18Its hugely popular in the UK.
      • derjames, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4Yes it is... i.e The number of members of my University network is about 30,000...
    • gotsound, on 11/04/2007, -4/+4On the contrary, Facebook is growing amazingly well internationally and has even converted previous users of Friendster (which is more popular in Asia) or Orkut (popular in South America) or hi5 (elsewhere around the world) into using Facebook as their main social networking site of choice. Facebook has indeed become an international phenomenon.
    • mrchinchin25, on 11/05/2007, -0/+11Its very popular in the UK - in the NW we use it for planning beer expeditions
    • opiniastrous, on 11/05/2007, -0/+45If I'm understanding you correctly, you don't come across a Facebook page whilst surfing the net. That's more of a MySpace thing. Facebook pages are within the Facebook page, and you have to register to see them.
      • AzBats, on 11/05/2007, -0/+9Facebook entries are not indexed by Google and it makes sense not to, for privacy and for getting more users.
      • imikedaman, on 11/04/2007, -0/+11And if that's what he meant, you have to wonder why he thought people from America end up on Facebook pages all the time just by surfing the net normally. It's the same World Wide Web no matter where you are.
    • Platina, on 11/04/2007, -0/+4Norway a country in Europe. Almost 1 million of the 4 millions that live in the country use facebook.
    • AndreGerber, on 11/04/2007, -0/+3I have to disagree. According to Alexa rankings, Facebook is the most popular website in South Africa, surpassing even Google and e-mail sites. (I live in South Africa). It's all everyone is doing these days.
    • pyromonkey, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2I read an article somewhere that said the opposite, social network sites are more popular in Europe and Asia than in America right now.
      • 1337pino, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1In terms of ratio of users versus the population or in terms of the straight up amount of users from the area? If it's the latter, I'm sure Europe and Asia would win with the larger combined population counts.
    • ridercologne, on 11/04/2007, -1/+1Untrue, cyberdork. In Germany, Facebook is growing larger and larger by the minute. Many users from the german StudiVZ migrate to Facebook right now.
      • sv650touring, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1what's with the name calling?
        • ungamedplayer, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1It makes him(/her) feel powerful.
    • skodaman, on 11/04/2007, -0/+3I've never come across a facebook page either.

      Porn pages however...
  • treelovinhippie, on 11/14/2007, -7/+122If this is true, it's a sad time for the Internet.
    • manageMyRights, on 11/05/2007, -0/+8In my day we had to dial up to a BBS in the hopes of obtaining one or two porn pictures, one slow piece at a time. These kids today don't appreciate how good they have it.
      • sv650touring, on 11/05/2007, -0/+7And you had to upload some new porn, if the sysop set an U/D ratio
    • omgroffles, on 11/05/2007, -2/+11This is what happens when we let women use the internets.
  • kenvsryu, on 11/05/2007, -2/+86It's easier to get a facebook account than get laid. Understatement of the year.
  • DBiz, on 11/14/2007, -3/+361Oddly enough, I have three tabs open right now: Porn, Facebook, and digg.

    Color me predictable.
    • thebellmaster1x, on 11/05/2007, -20/+5I have porn, Facebook, Digg, about 30 Wikipedia tabs, and 4chan open. Apparently, I'm a typical college-aged prick. :(
  • gbarberi, on 11/05/2007, -3/+8"Gen Y-ers would rather spend their time with Facebook than with sex..."
    Until they make the virtual sex app.
    • iChainsaw, on 11/05/2007, -2/+11) virtual sex app
      2) ????
      3) PROFIT
    • Fl4sh, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2It's only a matter of time. They already have free condoms.
  • Po0py, on 11/06/2007, -6/+154Gen Y?

    What the ***** is that?
    • Murdats, on 11/05/2007, -0/+50apparently its the generation that came a few years after Gen X
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_y
      in short, no one really knows but its a catchy buzz word to apply to any group of people under 30
      • daza, on 11/05/2007, -0/+37Generation naming needs to move to hexadecimal system or something, because if my calculations are correct, precisely after Generation Z, we're going to see some serious *****.
      • rarson, on 11/05/2007, -1/+1No, there are people under thirty who belong to Gen X and people, like me, who don't really fit into Gen X or Y (the "tweeners" or "MTV generation").

        Generational grouping is really wishy-washy anyway, but at a personal level, it's more about who you identify with most.
    • chingy1788, on 11/05/2007, -2/+16wait
      so we will call our children Gen Z
      then what will they call their children?
      • TheSmiddy, on 11/07/2007, -0/+89generation AA, havn't you used excel?
        • chingy1788, on 11/05/2007, -3/+9nop, I do all my table work in MS word

          /jokes
        • iChainsaw, on 11/05/2007, -0/+9ms word is the best 3D animation tool ever.
        • xruntime, on 11/05/2007, -3/+2I would have dugg up your comment, chingy, if you had not mentioned that you were joking.
      • SilverStandard, on 11/05/2007, -1/+9Generation Alpha?
      • offput, on 11/05/2007, -2/+14Well by then, the rapture will surely have taken us all!
      • Ibox, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5just don't reproduce... its prolly better that way.
      • otakukampf, on 11/05/2007, -1/+1Read dr. seuss's beyond zebra. Geez! Doesn't anyone know about those letters after z? What else would we call the weird animals that he notes?
      • ieatsmurfs, on 11/05/2007, -0/+3doesn't look like you need to worry about it since facebook is more popular than sex.
    • rowlodge, on 11/05/2007, -3/+4has to do with missing y chromosones...
    • MasterThief117, on 11/05/2007, -1/+2Sounds like some sort of skin cream.
    • Fl4sh, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2People born between 1985 and 1995...According to Wikipedia.
    • twigboy, on 11/05/2007, -1/+1What happens after Gen Z?
    • spacebar14, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generations
    • spacebar14, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generations
  • FluffyWolf, on 11/07/2007, -4/+3An article than mentions both sex and facebook must be good. Buried as hyped up boring *****. (I'm talking of sex of course...or not)
  • Valzore, on 11/05/2007, -11/+1 18- to 24-year-olds don't need to look for porn. As they have access to the real thing. So why look for what you have?
  • Superdemon, on 11/14/2007, -0/+77IMPOSSIBLE!!! Porn is the foundation of the Internet. If there was no porn there would be no Internet.
    • Murdats, on 11/06/2007, -0/+31if there was no porn there would be only one site.
      www.bringbacktheporn.com
      • doctorfungi, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2It appears that already is a porn site of sorts.
        • b3mus3d, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2I was about to put that site in to see what it was.
          I am in the living room on my laptop with my family.

          Thanks for the heads up :D
      • TheKarmaPolice, on 11/06/2007, -0/+8you forgot to give credit where credit is due:

        "if there was no porn there would be only one site.
        www.bringbacktheporn.com"
        -Dr. Cox (from Scrubs)
      • TheKarmaPolice, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1whooops, that's a reply to doctor fungi...
    • TheKarmaPolice, on 11/05/2007, -0/+6so what you're saying is...Al Gore invented Porn! so THAT'S why he won the Nobel Prize...
    • cnot3, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2Yeah everyone knows the internet was invented as a means for universities to share pictures of naked women with each other.
  • substrom, on 11/07/2007, -8/+6just wait until these "Gen Y-ers" are working (slaving), happily married (suicidal) with 2 lovely kids (little *****).
    then we will see most of their spare time is spent on porn

    collage is all about drugs, booze and sex (with others).....who need's porn?
  • tybris, on 11/05/2007, -2/+22It's true: http://tinyurl.com/2m8qql
  • zan012, on 11/05/2007, -0/+30The internet is a table, its legs are made of porn, and facebook is just another food sitting on top.
    • ChromaVita, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5Wait I thought it was a series of tubes...
      • BoMEpsilon, on 11/05/2007, -2/+1Weren't they saying it was a truck?
      • Puppetfunk, on 11/05/2007, -0/+3It's a series of tubes, and these tubes are made out of tables.
  • Aidanjalali, on 11/07/2007, -5/+3I'm in England and Facebook's a Uni thing here. Before then, nobody knows really knows about it...
    • Ramble, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Pretty popular amongst us sixth formers too.
    • siddhartha1138, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Uni? Sixth formers? what?
      • meez, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2Uni = University
        Sixth Form = after-highschool, kinda like college, non-compulsary
    • zongamin, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Are you joking? Its mentioned in the papers and on TV every single day!
      Everyone knows about it you idiot.
  • Stricker, on 11/04/2007, -4/+3"Not true, it's incredibly popular in Europe and within the various international expat circles as well. There are almost 112,000 members belonging to the United Arab Emirates network alone."

    That's assuming UAE is in Europe...? I had never heard of Facebook until I just read this article, I live in Denmark.
    • mrgoat, on 11/04/2007, -1/+1So you didn't hear about the whole 15 billion thing?

    • Lyrl, on 11/04/2007, -0/+4I think the commenter was saying the UAE has an "international expat circle", not that it was part of Europe.
  • xOKxWhy, on 11/05/2007, -2/+13Buried as inaccurate
  • justelite, on 11/07/2007, -0/+14I don't buy it! porn is the king. that's why internet was invented
  • Relentl3ss, on 11/05/2007, -1/+18Lies....
    http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo ...
  • kcb2, on 11/05/2007, -1/+33If it is based on how much time is spent, then I wouldn't argue against it....I only need a few minutes of porn....
  • HRF1, on 11/04/2007, -6/+1That's *****' GAY
  • robwilkens, on 11/07/2007, -7/+2The thing with porn is most of it is the same old same old after a while. I mean how often can you see the same thing happening over and over --- Porn kings have been remarkably uninspiring lately. I'd tend to think young kids nowadays know sex can lead to STDs (things like parenthood).

    Of course, Facebook is nothing but ads disguised as friendly suggestions posted as bulletins an the like.

    The attraction of porn in my experience is that you get to see people being forced to do things (sometimes disgusting) in exchange for money, it's not so much "I want to be doing that" when people watch it.
  • ssjasper2003, on 11/04/2007, -6/+0Im glad I made 2 accounts to get my 5 free songs.
  • doctorfungi, on 11/07/2007, -2/+70Maybe guys are just jerking off to pictures of their hot female friends on Facebook?
  • mad_raven, on 11/04/2007, -1/+3Uh...excuse me, Mr. President. That's not entirely accurate.
  • ballagarba, on 11/05/2007, -1/+13Buried as inaccurate, ever heard of downloading porn via p2p? Who surfs the internet for porn now anyways, it's just full of commercial, adware, viruses and you have to pay...
    • cnldelta, on 11/05/2007, -0/+11Gen Y also learned to torrent much earlier than Gen X.
    • thebellmaster1x, on 11/04/2007, -2/+1Er, yeah, because Limewire isn't RIFE with viruses.
      /sarcasm
      Aside from that, though, I don't think I've ever found a use for Rapidshare that WASN'T porn.
      • patcito, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5Limewire? lulz nobody uses that anymore. Ever heard of torrents??
  • neutralmind, on 11/04/2007, -2/+1Article has not stated that 90% of surveyed subjects are in fact diggers.
  • depro9, on 11/06/2007, -1/+9I wonder what dumb rich guy is going to believe this ***** & spend billions on it?
  • cjh24, on 11/04/2007, -1/+3has teh interweb finally gone through puberty?
  • rento, on 11/07/2007, -3/+4What? Well I guess poking does satisfy some fantasies. ggigigty giggity oh riiite
    • mittens11, on 11/04/2007, -0/+0bahaha that was uncalled for keegan says, lisa thinks you rock!!
  • roberto_deneero, on 11/07/2007, -0/+9Buried for complete stupidity.
  • StephenCIreland, on 11/07/2007, -1/+8the next logical step, integrate facebook and porn, Sexbook.com or faceporn.com , mybee the first ones a better option...
    • derjames, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5or perhaps *****...
    • cartwheels, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Faceporn.com is the first thing I've laughed at in a while on digg. Well played, my good sir, well played.
  • Tieryal, on 11/04/2007, -0/+4the 33% decrease in porn websites surely has to do with the fact that a growing number of people come to the epiphany that instead of paying for porn though a website they can torrent 30gigs of high quality F&S for free in a single weeks time. ^^
  • nogChoco, on 11/06/2007, -1/+104Yes, I have 200GB of Facebook pages stored on my harddisk.
    • Gameflyer, on 11/06/2007, -2/+2Damn, 200GB of porn? I think you may have a problem.
  • thegreathal, on 11/06/2007, -5/+5Time is a horribly written magazine, and has been for the past 5-10 years. Also, they hate technology, and every time something new comes out, question it completely. Statistics are total junk, and I'm not even a math guy. Here's why:

    1. Porn usage hasn't decreased, social networking usage has increased.
    2. The difference between old people's priorities and that of the future of the world are different, because although "the internet is for porn", old people don't understand that it's for porn after e-mail, stocks, now social networking. (Avenue Q et al.)
    3. Hitwise is just unreliable when making broad claims like this.
    • SuperCheese, on 11/04/2007, -1/+2How can they hate technology when they just named the iPhone the invention of the year?
      (Granted, I think that's an incredibly stupid call, but, still.)
      • Chandon, on 11/04/2007, -1/+2Maybe because the iPhone isn't any sort of new technology - it's safe old technology with an Apple logo on it.
  • RussellGrigg, on 11/04/2007, -4/+0I wonder how many guys use this to meet underage girls so they can 'party'.
    • meanfish, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3Probably not nearly as many as use it to meet non-underage girls so they can 'party'.
  • amenon89, on 11/04/2007, -0/+0What is the world coming to?
    • daverave999, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Well according to this, it's not porn.
  • jjbtexas, on 11/04/2007, -0/+0Gen Y loves sex just as much as everyone else we just get some our selves instead of using the internet,. Facebook is another thing to do, why look at porn when u can get the real thing. Half the time kids leave it up anyways, they log in and mess around on it for 15-20min than play games or go out side, but leave it open so it says they've been on for 4 hours,. At least on my mac, when i close the facebook window it keeps me logged on until i close the entire app or log out. The iPhone is just as bad, i either have to log out or turn the phone off.
  • loeki, on 11/04/2007, -0/+5This just goes to show we've become more efficient at finding porn.
  • kidcodea, on 11/04/2007, -0/+5wow planted facebook hype stories... lame

    porn is unbeteable by any means, not to mention a ***** website that does nothing for you except suck your littlelife details into it.
  • humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -0/+5In theory, I'd rather use facebook to try and get sex than look at pictures of other people having sex.

    In practice, I do both. At the same time. While typing commffjlfjiiiiijl

    ... while typing comments on digg.

  • TheLoneWolf071, on 11/05/2007, -1/+3I beg to differ. I open at least 10x more porn then facebook. Buried as inaccurate
  • jcardinal, on 11/04/2007, -7/+2I still like porn more though.

    http://www.templatestaff.com
  • acidbathfan, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1If Facebook is more popular than porn amongst Generation Y, then it's time we started thinning the herd starting with everyone in Generation Y that is addicted to Facebook.
  • mad23dog, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1I don't know what kind of study this is.. don't they know the internet is for porn? http://youtube.com/watch?v=jhTxRssxfuI
  • Disneyisevil50, on 11/05/2007, -0/+3Yeah, tell that to my penis
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