September 16, 2008

Curious. I wonder if Bill's assessment of why people are not searching as much for porn could be misleading.

Perhaps people are running into filters and are beginning to search in more clever ways. Or perhaps access to porn is becoming easier so that search is not the only way to access it anymore. Or people now have all their favorite sites bookmarked :o)

Though I'm all for no more porn, I'm also under the impression that viewing hasn't gone down even if searches have. Porn producers are slick. They employ very intelligent people to find ever increasingly better ways to hook people.

What could help explain this thought (assuming that it's correct)?

In my opinion, there are some important facts about social networking.
They keep collecting information in every detail they can. Privacy is being harassed and damaged, and in the near future people can face with really serious problems... (not just simple spams, more serious than that)

The reports on search are interesting. Tancer suggests that people are spending more time on social networking and so less time on porn.

I think these findings are more about the way that the web is changing. We used to just be able to read information that others published - and so it was an ideal environment for getting access to information or content you couldn't easily find elsewhere. It was in this environment that porn flourished.

Now the web is about interacting. We can do so much more these days, and we are doing.

Matt
FreshNetworks

I believe these numbers are a little misleading.

1. younger people are unable to access porn sites (assuming they stick to the law or don't have a credit card).
2. it is far more acceptable to browse social sites than it is to browse porn at work/school

I think this simply indicates an overall increase in net usage rather than a drop in the adult industry. I might be wrong... but sex sells... always has, I reckon it always will.

I truly believe that this decade is the decade of social networks. I think that those statistics are probably conservative.

Social networks are also evolving as we speak. The old social networks are collecting millions of advertising revenue through their membership base.

The new social networks are aware of this, and have decided that in order to compete with the established "giants", they will actually share the advertising revenue with members. A good idea, definitely.

I say, stay away from social networking... If you can't help it, don't post stuff you will regret later on.

Is this the same Jupiter that last year reported that social network users don't mix their social network activities with their dating site activities?

I think they're basing this purely on hype and not so much on numbers. Even google recently reported the disappointing results from myspace ads.

Jupiter seems to be forgetting human emotion which is the biggest market driver. Online dating is not going anywhere...not even to the freebie sites.

People still want quality and you can target an ad and profile all day long but you still won't find a quality date on a free social (or dating) website. Everyone single that actively dates knows better.

I see the whole social networking shift as a very exciting time in history for web 2.0 however I believe we are still a ways off from social networking sites making dating sites obsolete.

The trick is how to get in front of the desired audience. On dating sites you know for a fact everyone on the dating site is specifically there to meet people to date or for relationships. On MySpace and Facebook it is not as clear cut as it is on the dating sites. People can say just do a search on people who are interested in dating but often times you end up with people just trying to market MLM deals, musicians trying to peddle their music, etc. on MySpace and Facebook. I think there will have to be a software in between MySpace or Facebook and the user to actually target a single-and-looking audience on social sites and to date I have not seen a succesful one.

Well, I think people are always curious to see whats going on on dating sites, and once they register and get responses, its hard to stop, so, instead of worrying about Social networking sites, I think we, as dating site owners should embrace their presence and advertise on them.

I think the shift is partially caused by the creation of adult social networking sites. They don't need to search for porn when they can social network and look at porn at the same time.

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