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Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ladies-choice dept.

thefickler writes "The blogosphere has hit the mainstream, according to a new survey, which reveals that 80% of Americans know what a blog is, 50% regularly visit blogs, and 8% publish their own blog. The survey also reveals that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14% of men."

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  1. I'd belive the stats by BWJones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These stats seem to hold up with what i am seeing on the stats for Jonesblog in that the majority of readers seem to be women looking for recipes , pictures of animals and interestingly, travel while the majority of searches from males tend to be stuff like guns , airplanes , cars and an inordinate amount of traffic searching for hot women that somehow hit this page . Stereotypes are sad, but true I suppose in some areas. The interesting thing that really surprised me was that I had to include a notice in my FAQ on my "status" as I've had more than one unsolicited request for a date from visitors to the blog.

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    1. Re:I'd belive the stats by Skadet · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I think an interesting follow-up question is, "does more talking in real life equate to more blogging?". Sure there's correlation -- I think most of us will agree that women talk more than men -- but I wonder if the drive is similar between the two. . . In other words, does the mechanism that makes women blabber on also compel them to blog more? If so, what is that mechanism?

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    2. Re:I'd belive the stats by GuitarKat · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Well, those stats are well done, but I guess I'm not the usual woman. I don't look for recipies and I don't look for animals. I suppose travel would be the remotely closest thing I could see myself looking for.

      I actually get feeds from /., Homestar Runner, Penny Arcade Comic feeds, Kawaii Not feeds, some poltical journals (mostly socialist/liberal) and stuff from my friends and ThinkGeek on their new products up on the store.

      You are right, BWJones, stereotypes are depressing. And no, sorry guys, I don't have a picture of myself posted in a bikini on my blog.

  2. Does myspace count as blogging? by catbutt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just curious.

    1. Re:Does myspace count as blogging? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      >Does myspace count as blogging?

      All jokes aside, this is a good question. When I heard 50% of all Americans read blogs, I thought.. that's got to be bullshit. I know for a fact that most of the adults I know might know what a blog is, but sure as heck don't "regularly visit blogs". But, to your point, if you factor in things like livejournal, myspace, hell even facebook, which have "blogging" elements, then perhaps we approach this 50% mark when you consider all the youth today having their social sites.

      The thing I am curious about is WHO exactally they surveyed, WHAT the questions were, and HOW they arrived at their conclusions.

  3. Behind the counter by Tribbin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Very nice reading; a girl who in an entertaining way writes about her frustrations at Walmart.

    http://www.behindthecounter.com/

    Just stumbled across it and like to share it.

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    1. Re:Behind the counter by Tribbin · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Customer returns bed; wants a bigger one. The blogger sais that this is no problem.
      Customer does not want to pay the extra amount. The blogger sais that this is a problem.
      I don't see how you can not agree with her.

      And if you can't identify with her frustrations then you have not worked in horeca, gasstations, do-it-yourself stores or anything similar where you have to serve customers in all their variaty. They are ordinary frustrations that you can not show in your profession, but talk about with your friends and colleagues.

      The recognition is what makes her blog good.

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  4. Surprising! by Tribbin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Surprising how many men have blogs, considering that the ratio of men/women keeping diaries is, say 1/9.

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  5. Sexism on Slashdot by postlude · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the low intellectual tone of some of the comments in this thread are anything to go by, I would say that there are virtually no women using Slashdot, and to be honest, I can see why...

  6. Re:I don't believe the stats, at all by porcupine8 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Remember that "a blog" does not mean "a well-known blog" or "a blog that gets a lot of hits" or "a blog anyone but my three friends reads" or even "a blog that ANYONE reads." It just means any blog you write in - which includes everyone on LiveJournal and its children, plus the millions more on MySpace who use the blog function on there, plus blogger, wordpress, etc... 8% doesn't seem off at all to me. Hell, my MOM, who knows very little about computers, has a blog on 360.yahoo.com that she writes in once a month. My aunt and uncle, who are about as computer-savvy as she is, both have MySpace accounts and write in those blogs now and then.

    Regular people blogging: It's more likely than you think!

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