Optimistic Rebel

Picked this link up from Twitter/MattDickman, how pulled it via his feeds from ReadWriteWeb.com who post about a new study that reveals gender and age data on social networks. I’m describing that to illustrate how news spreads on the web. Who knows where it’ll end up from this post?

On most of the main social networks - including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 - women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in that age group compared to 977,753 men. In MySpace, the same age group dominates, with 7,091,214 women and 5,226,788 men.

The only social networks studied that didn’t have more women than men in the 18-24 year old group were venerable old LinkedIn (where incidentally the 25-34 age group was tops) and a site called Perfspot.

Other highlights:

* Women ages 14-24 dominate activity on social networks and have more friends than men of the same ages.
* Men ages 35+ are more active and have more friends than women of the same ages.
* The average social network user has 2-25 friends.
* There are a disproportionately high number of 69 year olds across various social networks. (my guess is that it’s the most popular ‘fake age’)

Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks - ReadWriteWeb