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[telophase]

Am listening to the audiobook version of Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters by Bill Tancer, who researches search engine traffic for a living.

Interesting facts so far:

-- In the category of "Well, duh!" searches for porn sites go up in cold-weather states during the winter.

-- Porn site popularity has actually gone down a bit as social networking site use has gone up. And during the two days in 2006 when the datacenter that hosted Myspace (and, ISTR, Livejournal) had a power outage, the three sites that saw traffic go up for the duration were Google, online dating sites, and porn sites.

Comments

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I always wonder how those numbers are affected by people writing their own porn on social networking sites. Do people do that on MySpace?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I've never run across porn on MySpace, but then again I stay as far away from MySpace as possible, so that means nothing. He does, in an earlier part of the chapter, talk about how the demographics of porn surfers varies - men overwhelmingly go for visual porn, while women overwhelmingly go for written porn, and he namechecks adultfanfiction.com (or .org? At work, so don't want to double-check that XD).

Although he doesn't explicitly say that people tend to prefer real, live connections with humans to virtual connections with images and text, he goes in that direction, quoting someone from MySpace, who says that he goes to MySpace because why would he want porn when there's a chance of hooking up with a real, live girl?

Caveat: I was listening and fighting a kitten at the same time, and I've slept since then, so I may be getting elements wrong, but I think that's the gist of it.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

No, that sounds completely right.

[sleary.livejournal.com]

I had an ARC of this but got bored after skimming a couple of chapters. I imagine this is one of the few books I'd enjoy more in audio.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

He reads it himself, and mispronounces a few things. Most prominently Mexia, in the section where he's talking about the demographics of the people who searched for Anna Nicole Smith info after her death.