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    • dallasgustafson a year ago

      “On the Marketing Powers site there is an article entitled “Social Media Marketing: Good Idea or Bad?” In that article I wrote about some recent feedback from presentations, “… for every person singing about the advantages there were 5 people complaining how much of a waste of time it was.” In response Chuck wrote, “no matter what your opinion is or whether “you” think it’s a waste of time, social media marketing is here to stay and is growing in importance in the global culture and marketplace; it therefore cannot be ignored by marketers. So I would suggest Howie that you were hanging around with a bunch of “old fart” Printers….” Before I thank my friend Chuck for his insights, I decided to do some homework. I found that in 2008 Hitwise General Manager of Global Research Bill Tancer wrote in his book, “”Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why it Matters,”” that social networking sites are the Internet’s biggest attraction, surpassing pornography. According to Tancer searching for porn dropped to about 10% of searches from 20% a decade ago. “”As social networking traffic has increased, visits to porn sites have decreased.” Tancer believed that this shift in popularity could be attributed mostly to one group 18- to 24-year-olds. Apparently these college aged kids were searching less for porn. “”My theory is that young users spend so much time on social networks that they don’t have time to look at adult sites.”“”

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    • meredithb5 thinks Social Media Overtakes Porn As No. 1 ... is Fail & WTF  about a year ago ×
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    • eixo a year ago

      There’s other stuff on there?

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    • Tojamaru a year ago

      Hell froze over… or more nerds just got their rooms installed with surveillance videos by their moms.

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    • philipbebbingtoni   Social Media Overtakes Porn As No. 1 ...  about a year ago ×
    • neptuny a year ago

      Isn’t it sad when a social medium replaces such a valued institution like fapping in the dark.

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    • JKS thinks Social Media Overtakes Porn As No. 1 ... is LOL  about a year ago ×
    • Foozlesprite a year ago

      But…but the Internet is for PORN, not for Facebook.! Kind of sad when people prefer giving up their privacy to being happy in private…

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    • Floobity   Social Media Overtakes Porn As No. 1 ... and thinks it’s Win  about a year ago ×
    • LSN57 a year ago

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    • Sinistral a year ago

      Porn FTW!

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    • Lillithdv8 a year ago

      Blame farmville and bejeweled

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    • Lillithdv8 thinks Social Media Overtakes Porn As No. 1 ... is LOL  about a year ago ×
    • Mike Hayes a year ago

      Porn star Bobbi Eden’s response…

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    • pax a year ago

      This is so wrong! People lost focus!

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    • Aaron C. a year ago

      Come on guys! Looks like we need to put in some overtime on this.

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      I simply do not believe this.

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