I’m sure you’ve all been in a similar discussion. Last night I was playing poker with my neighbors and someone brought up how frustrated they were with their wife always on Facebook. Another chimed in, “she’s on Facebook while I’m on porn. I’m good with that!” Which you can imagine lead to a series of discussions that took us in many directions:).

With my ”social media advocate” hat on I quickly turned to the Internet on my BlackBerry to see what I could find in the debate – Social Media vs. Porn. To my surprise I came across a number of posts from this June that proved my poker buddies wrong…Social Media has become a more popular online activity than porn! Steven Stark talks about it in his blog post, “Social Media Beats Porn” which references the SearchEngineWatch.com article by Erik Qualman entitled, “15 Social Media Maxims for Marketers” from June 1 citing recent Hitwise data. Although I question the interpretation of the study…I still think it’s a pretty cool stat to throw out as we’re educating folks about social media.

So I suppose we as Americans have now added to our vices? Sex, gambling and Social Media?! I suppose it could be worse:).