Prostitutes migrate to Facebook after Craigslist crackdown
The research of the escort workers life in N Y found out that the prevailing majority turn to the social site Facebook in order to promote their services. S. Venkatesh, the professor of sociology at the University of Columbia, spent one year interviewing almost three thousand street workers as for their financial, and work habits in order to gather the information. In the article for the wired journal, the professor Venkatesh revealed that eighty per cents of the sexual workers whom he spoke to have the Facebook page that they utilized in order to post the pictures, promote their services and establish prices. The old perception of the sexual worker could be on the way out, according to the new investigation, what showed that eighty three per cents of the prostitutes had the Facebook profile. The investigation also found that in the year two thousand eight Facebook helped to bring in twenty five percents of the female's regular customers base, immediately before the site was launched at first.
During the same period, Venkatesh found out that the part of customers derived from the internet classified the site, Craigslist fell from the nine percents to three. The fall happened despite the notorious crackdown of the Craigslist, on the web-based agencies that were utilizing the site. The increase in the social networking has transformed the very idea of the 'old escort prostitute' and the pimp, with the working girls who are now able to run their business, and cut out the man.
'Among the women he talked to, only sixty one percent told that they utilized the Craigslist, mostly for the promotion of their services,' Venkatesh had written in the wired article. 'But before the site crackdown on the site’s adult services section, escort workers turned to the Facebook. 'Eighty three percents have their Facebook profile, and he estimates that by the end of the year two thousand eleven, Facebook would be leading on-line recruit space. 'Any self-respecting cosmopolitan male looking for the evening in the companionship was going to lean his automobile window, and to call out to the woman at the track light.