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U.S. Social Networking Sites Loosing Popularity

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Following quotes are related to mainstream (non-adult) Social Networking Sites but if that sort of sites started to lose popularity in general it will apply to adult social networking and bookmarking sites too in my opinion…

“After peaking in October of 2007 with 71.9 million users, MySpace, the leading social network, has seen its audience fall back to around 68.9 million unique visitors. December saw no growth over November, though visitors were up 13% from last December.

More alarming are the engagement metrics. Since December 2006, when MySpace engagement peaked at about 234 minutes spent per visitor, time spent on the site has dropped consistently throughout the year. In December, time spent per visitor saw its biggest month-to-month drop, of about 8.5%, to 179 minutes per visitor per month, down from 196 minutes in November. That equates to a 24% year-over-year drop.

But the pain is not just a MySpace problem. It seems to be an industry-wide issue. The total audience of U.S. social networks seems to be stuck at a low-to-mid-single digit growth rate, while the engagment metrics are falling for just about everyone. Time spent on Bebo.com has been sliced in half over the last four months, while Friendster’s time spent has plummeted nearly 75% in the same time period. Overall, minutes spent per site fell 5% in December 2007 compared to the year-ago period.”

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X-Digg and GameLink.com Partnered

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DOLLARD-DES-ORMEAUX, Quebec (PRADULT) January 23, 2008 –- While social sites and video-on-demand continue to grow as major forces in the adult industry, X-Digg.com Enterprises, Inc. and GameLink.com have paired up to combine those two forces into a hurricane of sales, using GameLink’s just released Fleshboxxx Flash Video Theatre Player module located on X-Digg.com.

Stacie Adams, the Affiliate and Viral Marketing Manager at GameLink believes that “social sites are not only an increasing viral marketing dream for the adult industry, but sites like X-Digg yield a huge audience of users looking directly for items in the adult world.” The Fleshboxxx pay-per-minute flash video player allows users to view clips from videos and buy minutes from thousands of adult video releases all from within the player. The user never leaves X-Digg.

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