Facebook: More Popular than Porn

I read an article titled “Facebook: More Popular than Porn.” The url link is: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1678586,00.html?cnn=yes

The article focused on internet statistics. Statistics of how Facebook falls into users everyday internet habits. The author of the article is the general manager of the global research Hitwise, so he used Hitwise to gather statistics for this article. The article focused on the internet habits of college students since Facebook is most popular among that age group. The article says that the popularity of porn has been steadily decreasing especially in the 18-24 year-old age group. For the 18 -24 year olds social networks rank first, followed by search engines, third is web based email, and in fourth place is the porn sites. However, among the other age groups porn is second only to search engines. Facebook and other social networks have also inspired its users to web based email and instant messaging.

I chose to read and post about this article because it is related to the article I posted about last week. I found it interesting to see statistics to see what my peers do when they are online. Once again it is a kind of creepy and scary to read about people watching and monitoring your online habits.