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Twitter, Facebook and the gender divide

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I’m a massive sucker for graphs, infothetics and that sort of stuff and recently saw the above on the excellent Information is Beautiful blog. What do you think?

At first I was pretty surprised at the big split between the number of female and male twitterers (the only females that follow me on Twitter want me to take a look at their “XXXHOT pics”). But with Facebook the divide is even more pronounced –  last month Inside Facebook reported that, in the US, the female/male ratio on the site has now hit an all time high, with ladies outnumbering blokes 1.35 to 1, with twice as many women joining Facebook in the last month than men.

facebook male v female

I wonder why? Is it because fewer men have access to a computer at their place of work? Or are women just more social than men?

2 Comments

  1. Katie
    Posted September 2, 2009 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    Surely this has to be down to the inherent nosiness of the fairer sex? Social media makes the internet one huge people-watching opportunity – that’s a girls dream!

  2. Posted September 23, 2009 at 11:37 am | Permalink