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Are Heterosexual Internet Users Antisocial?

Put another way (and paraphrasing the old Breck's television campaign), do straights have less fun? Well, online, at least, maybe so....

The results of a recent survey commissioned by Witeck-Combs Communications and conducted by Harris Interactive suggest that online social network sites are more popular with gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) Internet users than they are with heterosexual Web surfers.

An online survey of over 2,500 US adults (ages 18 and older) showed that, proportionately, GLB Internet users visit social networking sites Friendster and MySpace more often in an average week than do heterosexual Internet usrs, with Facebook used about equally by the two groups.

Additionally, 27% of GLB Internet users reported that they visit YouTube for an hour or so each week, compared with 22% of heterosexual respondents.

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