Mary Richert: Facebook and MySpace are now more popular than porn sites | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Mary Richert: Facebook and MySpace are now more popular than porn sites | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "It's an old joke among web geeks that 'the internet is for porn'. OK, so it was invented by the department of defence for the sake of communications, but if there's one industry that can commodify a resource faster than the oil industry can waste it, it's porn. It makes sense, too, since sex is both a basic animal (and human) instinct and also something we frown on and obsess over to the extent that it's frightening. When the internet was young and users were still basically anonymous, there was no better way to indulge in a guilty pleasure than from behind the veil of your monitor."