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Females Outnumber Males Online
westcoaster004 writes "In news which may surprise some Slashdot users, females have been found to outnumber males online in the U.S. according to a report, and for some time. The statistics for Canadians show a slightly greater number of male users."
It wasn't the first, and it definately won't be the last.
Males lying about being females outnumbers males telling the truth online.
Before I believe any of that I want to see what they define as 'female' and 'online'.
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I don't see any age distribution in TFA (just "over 3"), but I have a sneaking suspicion that 2/3 of those are over the age of 50. In other words, granny discovered e-mail and how to order knitting needles online.
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I, for one, welcome our new online female overladies!
"The statistics for Canadians show a slightly greater number of male users."
THis is compensated by a surprising number of sheep.
..no one really knows you're a dog.
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Why does this remind me of an old IRC saying.....
"Welcome to IRC, where the Men are Men, the Women are Men, and the 14 Year Old Girls are FBI Agents"
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I didn't know the FBI had that many agents.
I don't think this is supprising. Females are more social creatures than males. I won't say wheather this is biologic or social, but right here, right now, most of them are. Females in their teens are known to talk on the phone FOREVER. Females are known to sit around and gossip all the time. Computers are now straightforward enough to use so that a new user don't have to figure out how it works (typical male behaviour), but instead, can go straight to $chat_network or $social_website and start to gossip. They use internet because it helps them do what they like to do outside of computers.
Males, on the other hand, like to play with stuff, build stuff, etc. Maybe the internet isn't that appealing to that crowd in the same way. Or maybe it is, but males actually get "done" with the internet, just like we usually finish a phone call in one minute, and go on to do something else instead.
Of course, that doesn't mean that there are more female hackers than male - hackers are people who use internet (and computers in general) to build stuff, and more males want to build stuff than females, and thus, there should be more male hackers than females.
...to outnumber males online"
And I still can't find a date!
Posting as AC because I'm embarrased as hell.
Females outnumber males online. Night elves outnumber Orcs and Dwarves, but Goblins received an unexpected surge in popularity after Draenei were nerfed in the last update. Figures for Tauren have remained more or less stable, and no figures for Trolls are available as they ate the census-takers.
on Slashdot we're still between real men !
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I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Not a slam on 'stay at home moms' in the least, but there are more of those then 'stay at home dads', so just purely by the #'s there is a better chance of them finding some time to be online during the day then the males of the population.
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Percentage of female internet population on myspace.com: 99%
Everywhere else: 1%
Slashdot is Canadian!
Figures also show that 90% of females online are 18, horny and want to sex you up.
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1: There are more females than males
2: Women are more likely to attend college than men. Virtually all college students are required to use the internet while they are there, and at least some will keep up the habit later.
3: Women are more likely to have desk jobs or other indoor jobs, which again often exposes them to the internet.
That being said, I think time spent on the internet is a much greater measure. I bet men spend far more time on the internet than women, despite the apparent data that says women dabble with it more often.
This reminds me of my 12 year old neice who sites on MSN for hours at a time jibba-jabbin to her friends, whilst her brother would rather watch Hockey on TV.
This is good news for those people who've recently been ranting about there not being enough women in web design, and trying to work out the reasons why. With more women now online than men, the balance will hopefully be redressed (when that generation gets off MSN and wants to do something useful with their lives).
I'm going to transform myself into a mighty hawk. Either that or I'll just go and work at Dixons, haven't decided yet.
Just what we need, eh? A blocked Series of Boob-Tubes.
The reason for this is likely Facebook and Myspace. These social networking sites make is really easy to simply log onto one site, do all the chit-chat with 10-20 people that would normally take 5 minutes per person, and then log off. When I go to the computer lab at my university, a quick peek at women's computer screens shows that 7 out of 10 computer screens are of Facebook, and 2 out of 10 are of Myspace. The remaining 10% are of actual class webpages. On the other hand, 6 out of 10 male computer screens are of ESPN, NCAA, or Facebook/Myspace. Okay I didn't really look at the guys at all.
um, hello? This is news? One word - "shopping."
There may be more women than men online, however they all come in the .jpg format.
As a Canadian I am infurated by this article. This was classifed Canadian government information. As such, only Canadians were supposed to know that more women were online - and the fact that more Canadian men were aware of this, as the data shows is no excuse for giving away our secrets!
Still, the cat is out of the bag. We have large and sparsely populated country. By government mandate we are attempting to increase our populace by going online and luring the ladies to our glacial climate via online dating services!
This throws a wrench into our grand plan of luring the likes of nubile young women like "cuteie332" "betty22" and "chicky_54" here so we can increase our populace and dominate the earth with our floppy heads!
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Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
Yeah, they don't even take into consideration Rule 37.
Tits or GTFO.
Typical sloppy journalism, not specifying the species.
we will end no whine before its time
... It's because Americans are a bunch of girls
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Sorry couldn't resist
Sorry. :)
Just because it can't be explained doesn't mean it isn't true. Science fits into reality... not the other way around.
I disagree. Most visual porn (an overwhelming majority) is targeted towards straight men, this is true. But to most women, good porn is a trashy romance novel, not a playboy. And if you've ever looked at the "romantic fiction" online, you'll see a pretty good number written by women.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
With the typical women who spend most of their time online, they probably outweigh online males too...
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Women on-line out-number men? Of course...look at any of the pictures, you'll see two, sometimes three or four women in the picutre with just one guy. What? You weren't talking about the pictures? Oh...nevermind.
In related news, women have been found far more likely to take surveys online.
Nathan Friedly
The article does not explain by what going online means (i.e.- Is it checking email, doing research, shopping, charring, or /.ing?). I am surprised at the number of responses that assume that women are only online to chat or use Facebook.
Consider that more women than men earn high school, associates, bachelors, masters, law, medical, and PhD degrees. And while more men than women are still university department chairs, more women tahn men are now the editors of academic journals. Who then is going to naturally be using the web for research (Other than for pictures of Milla Jovovich)? Women are the ones that are beginning to contol the direction of research and ideas. We men should hope that they nice to us, have a good sense of humor, and that they do not hold a grudge for our behavior.
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The rules of the internet. Give arbitrary numbers. The fad started after the infamous "Rule #34" image macro started circulating.
A few choice ones:
#24: Pics or it never happened.
#26: Nobody knows the answer to "What is love?".
#29: Barrel Rolls can evade anything.
#32: There is a market for any kind of porn.
#34: There is porn of it, no exceptions.
#37: There are no girls on the internet.
#50: If you die in the game, you die for real.
#52: Developers, developers, developers, developers.
#54: Snape killed dumbledore.
#55: "Winner" is actually spelled "WinRar"
#65: You will be reported to AOL if you steal pictures.
#71: If you fap to it and acheive orgasm, you must tell everyone.
#72: Everything on eBaumsworld is stolen. No exceptions.
#73: Believe everything you read on the internet.
#75: There is always a female version of a male character. No exceptions.
#76: Duke Nukem Forever must never be released or the whole of the interent will collapse.
#78: It's been cracked and pirated. No exceptions.
#82: Upgrading someone's RAM is a sign of goodwill.
#87: If you would have sex with it, let everyone know.
God damn I spend too much time on 4chan.
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