Friday 19 March 2010

Social Networking vs. Browsing… And the winner is!

Facebook finally outstripped Google for visitors last week. Its been coming for a long time and they’ve finally done it! Facebook is now the most visited site in the US beating Google into second place.

Those of us in the industry who watch this sort of stuff, had predicted this moment for some time, but even so, its crazy to think that more people visit Facebook, a social network site, than use Google’s search engine. Really? So what we’re saying is that, actually, we  catch up with each other, play games, watch videos, check messages, browse photos and personal profiles and generally hang out with our friends, family, colleagues and old school friends more than we search for stuff online!

Well, I suppose when you say it like that, it makes perfect sense… Congratulations Facebook

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Posted by Simon Johnson

1 comment :

Unknown said...

Not entirely surprising this. I guess it tells us that on-line dialogue will eventually replace e-mail software because people like to be seen 'belong' to to something other than an e-mail address.