Are people are perhaps more interested in relationships than in looking things up? Or is Facebook simply more addictive than Google within vulnerable demographics?
This has a downside. There is an increasing demand for clinical intervention to treat addiction to the internet (e.g. the Capio Nightingale Hospital, the Priory). And the internet is not going away anytime soon.
Perhaps the next dotcom fortune will be made devising applications by which people can automatically update Facebook and the like. The time of the online butler is coming, as seen in Minority Report.
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