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By: The Social Media Gender Gap « Ideas in Motion

The Social Media Gender Gap « Ideas in Motion — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:19:57 +0000

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Geek Girl ger alla energikick — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:04:42 +0000

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By: Amy Cross

Amy Cross — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:45:43 +0000

I read the data–one interesting conclusion is that social web households are mostly childless.

Most sites listed their 66-90% of users being childless.

Only myspace and upcoming has 43% and 41% no children in house respectively.

Maybe the ones withe children are on mommy blogs?

By: Sid P

Sid P — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:55:20 +0000

I see ning being mentioned as a way to create your won social networks – just a word of caution, if you do set up a network with ning, you will not be the owner of the membership data or the content and they can cross-promote you members to other networks

A better alternative would be SocialGO, where the network creator is the owner, 100% outright.

In my opinion, it’s important that if you create a website, network or whatever of your own, that you should own the data

By: Women use social media more than men: what’s news orgs’ response? « The Women’s Circuit Blog

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:12:27 +0000

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jardenberg kommenterar – 2009-10-06 — jardenberg unedited — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:31:59 +0000

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By: Women use social media more than men | Save the Media

Women use social media more than men | Save the Media — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:23:47 +0000

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By: Gina Chen

Gina Chen — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:11:38 +0000

Patrick,

Your theory about more women enrolling in college accounting for the difference makes sense. Would be interesting to see an age breakdown of usage — to really explain that difference.

Thoughts,

Yes, more study definitely needed. While differences between women and men on each isn’t that big, collectively does seem like an intersting trend.

Interesting.

– Gina

By: Thoughts.com

Thoughts.com — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:53:59 +0000

Social media is important for both and the difference is not a huge difference. The results to a study to see why women use social networking would be interesting. The study could lead to equal user ship and valuable information for social networking sites.

By: Patrick Thornton

Patrick Thornton — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:23:23 +0000

@Gina,

I think there is a real story brewing here about why women use social media more than men, and there is real potential for news organizations to harness social media to connect better with not only female users — but all users.

Humans are inherently social creatures, and I think that’s ultimately what the Web teaches us. News organizations need to become more social and fast.

I have some other theories about why women use social media more than men that I floated at my new blog, The Media is Social. That kind of post isn’t appropriate for BeatBlogging.Org, but it’s the kind of content that I may develop on my new blog.

Good luck with your research. I’ll be eagerly awaiting it.