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Also, you ask for explanations on why more women are on these other sites as if the normal state of thing would be that they should have more men. To make an appropriate explanation, it would be important to see the gender distributions for these sites for different cultures/nations. Even if we could obtain these, you're still asking for generalizations that might vary quite a bit according to age or ethnicity.
I also think the terms "matriarchy" and "patriarchy" to describe a higher percentage of one gender over another is overstating the case (which would probably be negligible with a 55/45 division) but I realize those aren't terms you chose, they were part of the study.
Heck, we've referred to my niece (now in College.. yikes!) as "Chick" as a term of endearment since she was 7 or 8. I seriously (and I mean this non-sarcastically) hope we haven't been secretly diminishing her since childhood.
Anyway, surely chick is better than ho or bitches, which is what you hear so many kids using.
Kevin Rose centerfold?
I actually think that women talk (communicate in general) more than men. so this isn't surprising.
What's up with Bebo being so far off? If these stats are accurate, AOL really needs to look at what's going on there. That's a huge spike in a sea of other sites which are overall balanced at or near the gender spread of the population.
and my Etsy Shop led me to everything else!
It doesn't surprise me that women rule the social web. The majority of their time is spent twittering celebrities and uploading drunken photos and stalking ex-boyfriends on facebook (I dont do that by the way. I do have a life). As for the Digg website, I can understand why more men are on it than women, its too technical for women to understand. I only browsed it for a few seconds and my mind went blank!
And I don't know if you have noticed, but I am a woman?! I know most women don't spend most of their time twittering celebs and posting drunken photos. That was a joke that hasn't gone down to well. I do have a life outside consisting of music, reading, writing etc. And I spend time with women, who are friends that go to university (and refuse to join twitter because they think its a waste of time) and my family who would rather cook than Digg. It seems you don't really have much going on in your life and only enjoy being negative.
a) Lots of women use the social web for professional reasons, as well as out of a desire to communicate with other people (perhaps they desire that more than men, who tend to need that socializing a bit less)
b) Lots of women use Twitter to network professionally and personally.
c) Lots of women upload photos of their children, or amateur (or professional!) artistic photography.
d) Lots of women use Facebook to connect with old friends who may live too far away for them to visit.
There's absolutely no need for your ridiculous value judgements.
maybe, they know better! :-)
As for the curious comment about women having more free time on their hands, the study finds the exact opposite:
"As we write this, the number of working women in the United States is about to surpass the number of working men."
and
"(Women) have too many demands on their time and constantly juggle conflicting priorities - work, home and family. Few companies have responded to their need for time-saving solutions or for products and services designed specifically for them."
Perhaps the readers' assumption is the same unfortunate stereotype that leads men and women to following more men on twitter? We should stop assuming that women have less to say about anything beyond raising children and shopping, because someday very soon the world WILL be controlled by the female majority according to the BCG research. ;)
On an unconscious level, the mass majority become distressed when their expectations of gender roles, schemas, are blurred. So, chicks rule, if and only if, we blather about non-tech topics.
Moreover, if a woman is even remotely semi-attractive, both men and women want (desperately) to believe that she cannot possibly be tech savvy.
Lesson learned from personal experience: women should be seen and not heard, notwithstanding that the year is 2009.
On an unconscious level, the mass majority become distressed when their expectations of gender roles, schemas, are blurred. So, chicks rule, if and only if, we blather about non-tech topics.
Moreover, if a woman is even remotely semi-attractive, both men and women want (desperately) to believe that she cannot possibly be tech savvy.
Lesson learned from personal experience: women should be seen and not heard, notwithstanding that the year is 2009. /sarcasm
And YESSSS on DIGG.
J.
You don't know for a fact that the profile is indeed female / male in real life. You also have no background on them to establish why the results are like they are. so the survey stops there. Bit useless really.
Most men could care less what you call them. You "chicks" need to get over yourselves.
http://www.seodoom.info/2009/09/what-is-meant-b...
I agree, is really sure, I think women communicate better than men, men may require prior centuries of training up to get close to women in this field. here in Brazil we have a term "suck this manga" Manga is a fruit originating in India and fibrous with big seed!
By the term "chicks" It is not something man who is offended by so little!
Big hug,
Thanks, and happy 2010
To you Fun, Health and Prosperity
Mark Sansom