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Women Now Outnumber Men Online
miller60 writes "There are now more American women than men using the Internet, according to a new study from the Pew Center on the Internet and American Life on gender and use of the Net. While a slightly larger percentage of men than women are online (68 percent vs 66 percent), the larger population of American women tips the balance. Other findings: younger women and black women outpace their male peers by larger margins than the wider population."
Goes to show more women are spending time on the internet, be it as a stay at home mom or from their offices in the ivory towers...... The real question is do people actually pay for survey results like this ...????
These results might have caught my eye more if phrased in the reverse:
About a third of the population does not ever use the internet.
Even in the 18-29 age range its about 1 in 5 who are not online.
Yes so what, the article does not say what they are doing, are women just chatting on MSN Messenger or are they creating new Googles? big difference, I hope they are creating new Googles, but most likely the number of women doing that is still small. It is not such an advance for female-kind to do email and chatting online!
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More people are finding out about the anonymity the internet is providing and women have an opportunity to thrive in a situation where they can have as many relationships that they would be unable or afraid to have in real life without pressure from society's norms (I am not talking about just women in the US who may already have this freedom but other countries too). You will soon find that what makes a man different from a woman will change soon as both of them get similar exposure, outdoor life and access to information and no/low restriction on their behaviour. Often you may find that in such situations women will behave the same as men if not worse.
And just how big is the rock that the rest of these people are living under?
I think e-mail is slowly dying actually. A lot of kids don't really use it instead preferring to use instant messenger. If a kid has their own computer with broadband access, that stays on 24x7, why not just use IM?
Spam really hurts the usefulness of e-mail for a lot of users. Personally, I've reduced my personal e-mail account to just notification from various things I'm involved in (school, bills, etc.).
The thing I like so much about IM is that only people who I've explicitly allowed to contact me can actually contact me. This means no spam. With logging, and grep, it's just as useful a communications history as e-mail.
Am I the only that is amazed? (or read the full survey!) at this line that says:
Order from Spam: 6% of online men. 5% of online women.
5%, even with a margin of error is still a lot. But i know that it is probably true. At a previous business that wasn't doing spam but were sending small email campaigns we were estimating a return rate of about 3%.
I just think this number is scaringly high... the reason spam works, spammers still have work, and my 6 years old email address receives over 500 spams a day!
so, yes, am I the only one amazed by this? I would have like to have more question on this topic, like what do you buy from spam? Are you satisfied with it? How often do you buy from spam? etc...
Based on my own experience, I would say it is true that more women then men are using the internet. And the BBC article that some have posted, also confirms with my experience. Many, oh hell, all of these women want to socialize, make a "connection", become friends, etc.. I can tell you that is what has happened to me on the MMORG COH. And yes they are really women. The emails and phone conversations we have had have confirmed this. This is getting maybe off the subject, but has it occured to anyone that maybe this is happening in general in life, both business and personal, as women have become more involved and less passive in society. Before, when it was a "man's" world, activities and functions were well defined. I mean if you went swimming or jogging, it was for that reason. Or MMORG gaming. Now with so many girls involved, it gets into more of a social thing. Yeah, I know, if guys are around girls they start chasing after them. But it seems to me it's more of the girls doing the chasing. Sort of what McLuan said about us changing from a left brained reuductionist society to holiistic right brained. And isnt that more suited to women's brain chemistry? So maybe it is naturally becoming a women's world anyhow with the technological changes that have happened. And with these changes we are getting a new perspective of things and a new way of thinking. Because after all, isnt thinking and ways to think a very polymorphis occurance. OMG did I say all that?