Where the Online Traffic is Going

vitaly.friedman writes "While growth is slowing at most top Internet sites, it is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information. The dramatic success of those Internet categories is apparent from a recent online-traffic analysis provided by market research firm ComScore Media Metrix, which examined visitor growth rates among the 50 top Web sites over the past year."

Where the Online Traffic is Going?

[dotpavan]

Right now, to Washington Post :)

Re:If people only realized...

[meringuoid]

I don't think these sites would do as well if people realized the exposure and danger they risk by volunteering so much personal information on the internet.

Quite a point. Google sees everything you do online, and a cunning questioner can get more information about you than you might think.

Some script kiddie got into a webforum I rather liked a few months ago. Obsolete version of Invision with more holes than a Sierpinski gasket. He Defaced it, deleted stuff, the usual crap. Gloated about his leetness under his leet hacker's handle.

Which led to other places he'd posted.

Which led to other names he'd used.

Which led to a website.

Which had a whois record.

Which had a phone number.

Which was answered by his mother.

We got a photo of him from his eighth-grade spelling bee, too. Cute kid :-)

Re:Myspace

[robertjw]

Anyways... yes. The internet is changing, as users are given the ability to share opinions more freely and the average user begins to value those opinions more and more, the internet effectively becomes more human.

Funny. That's what everyone always said the Internet should be about. People freely exchanging ideas and conversations. Now everyone is bitching about all the stupid people and stupid sites. Just can't please anyone...

Where does the traffic go?

[jheath314]

Where-ever /. tells it to go, of course. :)

Your Parents

[Illbay]

The day your mother gets a blog, is the day you realize blogging has jumped the shark.