You forgot about Facebook, Myspace, Livejournal, etc. Thats where most go, not to Luminous-Landscape
You have a point; as I don´t go the sites you mention either, I don´t suppose I´m part of the world any more. Oh, yes, I use youtube when I want to look up some old music...
But I will make a serious point: I hate those pop-ups and all those blasted distractions that come onto the search engines. The last thing they do is make me feel positive about them. I can´t remember a single one. As an extension of that marketing psychology, let me tell you the latest little nonsense I ran into the other day: I walked to the car in the morning and hey! some brilliant young marketeer had thought of using sticky flyers to market his Indian restaurant. Yes, literally. The damn thing was stuck to the rear screen and remained there for about two days before I went to the trouble of coming out with a bucket of water. Will I use his restauarant? If I were forty years younger I´d break his friggin´ nose as for any vandal. And the nuisance value of the monitor being filled with crap solicits exactly the same response in me. First thing every morning some idot company has a pop-up that wants me to click onto the leading Hot Singers of the moment. Maybe the missing women go for that rubbish too.
Perhaps today´s people are expecting to be abused and might even feel deprived if treated with some respect in their own home.
Rob C