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Social Networking Sites Are Now More Popular Than Porn

guardian.co.uk — It appears that the internet is maturing, or at least its users seem to be. Porn sites have now been overtaken in popularity by social networking sites like MySpace, Friendster and Facebook.

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  • staplemaniac, on 10/25/2008, -3/+184One is used for jerkin it
    One is used for finding someone to jerk it for ya
  • craighoxton, on 10/25/2008, -1/+109Some smart guy will probably link the two and sell it for a million bucks
  • charm803, on 10/25/2008, -2/+77That's because there are real sluts on myspace with practically nude pics of themselves and willing to screw the next guy who tells her:

    "Dayum! You so hot, mami! "

  • BTConan, on 10/25/2008, -1/+71You are a master of the English language.
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -2/+64yea i know the feeling... i found myself jerking-off to Facebook the other day :(
  • npearson99, on 10/25/2008, -0/+62Maybe they're counting youporn.com.
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -0/+61Jerking off to the girl my my American Lit class is way better than doing it to girls I don't know.
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -2/+57Bed posts?
  • Trollbane, on 10/25/2008, -1/+51I, for one, am doing my bit to help pron get back to the top
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -1/+46Bob Dole?
  • RickyHo, on 10/25/2008, -0/+42Dude, just politely ask her if she would have intercourse with you.
    Girls like it when you're polite. Do it.
  • regression, on 10/25/2008, -2/+43Turtles?
  • Dohko_Xar, on 10/25/2008, -0/+38dugg for honesty
  • BeShirtHappy, on 10/24/2008, -2/+40I'm not surprised by this. I'm not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing...
  • ElAmo, on 10/25/2008, -3/+38clearly he has learned some insider tips from sarah palin
  • t0x2c, on 10/25/2008, -1/+33Posting beds?
  • scarz99, on 10/25/2008, -1/+31Maybe Kevin Smith's next movie should be about making a social networking website instead of porn.
  • muleskinner, on 10/25/2008, -3/+29I truly did not need to know this
  • ReeferChiefer42, on 10/25/2008, -0/+25adultfriendfinder.com hasn't already done that? That site's purpose is basically to solicit sex for desperate people through other desperate people.
  • stupidStan, on 10/25/2008, -2/+26ha... why do they keep insisting on mentioning Friendster in there? what a joke.
    http://www.google.com/trends?q=friendster%2C+faceb ...

    That like saying Dell Inspiron, Apple Macbook and Commodore 64.
  • greeniemeani, on 10/25/2008, -0/+24Dugg for porn?
  • eatsleeptrumpet, on 10/25/2008, -2/+26sometimes i like to eat kids
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -1/+22*out
  • maxedo, on 10/25/2008, -0/+21Fapbook.
  • socivitus, on 10/25/2008, -3/+22This whole "social" thing the web is going through is just a phase. Back in '99 it used to be cool to have flashing images all over your site, that faded out. Porn on the other hand has never loss its stride.
  • Teksaid, on 10/25/2008, -1/+20Just cause people like masturbating to real people better.
  • rjinso, on 10/25/2008, -0/+19"It appears that the internet is maturing, or at least its users seem to be."
    Well, just because people are using social networking sites more often than porn sites doesn't necessarily mean that they're more mature...
  • CompUComp, on 10/25/2008, -0/+19All I see is text, I want NUMBERS! If I don't see numbers (i.e. %), I don't believe it.
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -0/+19"76% of internet users report accessing Social Networking sites on a regular basis, while only 34% of internet users reported to access pornographic websites on a regular basis. Though it is estimated that 76% of people lied about the latter."

    There you are, pulled that straight outta my ass.
  • ReyX, on 10/25/2008, -1/+19Dad?
  • metalgel, on 10/25/2008, -4/+22if the chicks on the social networking sites are like the one in the picture up top, im fairly certain the pendulum will swing back to pr0n.
  • D2Much, on 10/25/2008, -0/+16pretty much the same, girls always have slutty pics up....
  • Trollbane, on 10/25/2008, -1/+17Speak for yourself
  • ISitnikov, on 10/25/2008, -1/+17In fact, there's a social networking site called Bedposting....

    Take a guess at what it might be about.

    :-p
  • Arth718, on 10/25/2008, -0/+14If I'm not mistaken this does not account for the sheer amount of porn being downloaded through bittorrent and other P2P software right? I have no doubt that porn is still much more popular.
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  • doublefelix, on 10/25/2008, -0/+13"....More Popular than Porn" Not in my Network.
  • KingBabi, on 10/25/2008, -0/+12Your 0 down diggs proves the lack of girls on the internet.
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -4/+16I just lost all faith in human kind.
  • Nauru, on 10/25/2008, -0/+12Yes. Do it.
  • chadillak, on 10/25/2008, -0/+12what's friendster?
  • shawnanigans, on 10/25/2008, -1/+13Tom and Mark make a Social Network.

    SPOILER ALERT

    Mark beats the ***** out of Tom.
  • newstart, on 10/25/2008, -0/+11We cannot let this happen people.

    "Stop Poking your friends and start poking yourself again"
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -0/+11Flashy graphics were just that, flashy graphics.

    Social networking connects people.

    You can't really compare the two.

    Sure, social networking is the cool thing to do at the moment, but it isn't going away, it'll just be seen as apart of the internet and not some amazing new concept.
  • thecosmicpope, on 10/25/2008, -2/+12Wait wait. So all those people on the porn sites don't exist? Damn you internet! What other lies have you told me!
  • aftern9ne, on 10/25/2008, -0/+10It's cause I'm jerking it to pictures of the girls I know.
  • inactive, on 10/25/2008, -0/+10Cut the blogspam, here's the original news article from last month: http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSS ...
  • Gioleb, on 10/25/2008, -0/+10You betcha'!
  • NickLee808, on 10/25/2008, -0/+9It sure is.
  • GhostyBoy, on 10/25/2008, -0/+9Absolutely.

    This data could be absolutely meaningless depending on how it was collected.
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