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MikeWaters · 11-18-2009, 04:23 AM

is it just me, or is facebook dominated by women?

Most of the responses to the content on my facebook page/wall are from women. As in 80%.

On these durn message boards, it's 98% men. So it's a completely different set of rules.

I am crass here in a way that would not work on facebook (for a number of reasons). But one of the reasons is that locker-room type stuff just doesn't work as well in mixed company.

Of course, the other possibility is that I am so freaking witty and cool, that women are *attracted* to my facebook crap, and my experience is not representative. Yeah, I am going with that.

Archaea · 11-18-2009, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

is it just me, or is facebook dominated by women?

Most of the responses to the content on my facebook page/wall are from women. As in 80%.

On these durn message boards, it's 98% men. So it's a completely different set of rules.

I am crass here in a way that would not work on facebook (for a number of reasons). But one of the reasons is that locker-room type stuff just doesn't work as well in mixed company.

Of course, the other possibility is that I am so freaking witty and cool, that women are *attracted* to my facebook crap, and my experience is not representative. Yeah, I am going with that.

Interactions on Facebook definitely differ. One can't be as controversial there.

ute4ever · 11-18-2009, 04:14 PM

Facebook was fun two years ago when they switched it from college-only to an open enrollment, and 100 million peeps suddenly signed up. It was nice to reconnect with so many people. who I'd wondered about for ages.

Nowadays though it's the same 10% of my friends who fill my live feed over and over: they update their status every few hours, set every application they play with to publish what they've done, and their comments on photos and everything. The other 90% of my friends never say a word. Admittedly I find my interest waning.

MikeWaters · 11-18-2009, 04:34 PM

You can block application updates to your feed (like Mafia Wars). You can also block people in the feed (i.e. that annoying person who updates 40 times a day about nothing).

I've been doing a social experiment. Not adding people, but merely seeing who adds me. (I've added probably 5 people total).

The occasional person shows up out of the blue, that you barely remember, and end up connecting and that can be fun.

I've also become a lot closer to some people now than I ever was in real life. As in, now if I go to the high school reunion, I might actually have a reason to chat.

ute4ever · 11-18-2009, 04:40 PM

Ha I joked with my student body pres that thanks to facebook, we won't have to hold a reunion. Nearly everyone who I wondered about for years, I now know all about them. I look at where they went to college, where they work, see their photos, and I'm done. There's the occasional "let's do lunch" if they're local, and that's that.

11-18-2009, 04:23 AM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Facebook is it just me, or is facebook dominated by women? Most of the responses to the content on my facebook page/wall are from women. As in 80%. On these durn message boards, it's 98% men. So it's a completely different set of rules. I am crass here in a way that would not work on facebook (for a number of reasons). But one of the reasons is that locker-room type stuff just doesn't work as well in mixed company. Of course, the other possibility is that I am so freaking witty and cool, that women are attracted to my facebook crap, and my experience is not representative. Yeah, I am going with that.

11-18-2009, 04:14 PM	#3
ute4ever I must not tell lies Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,103	Facebook was fun two years ago when they switched it from college-only to an open enrollment, and 100 million peeps suddenly signed up. It was nice to reconnect with so many people. who I'd wondered about for ages. Nowadays though it's the same 10% of my friends who fill my live feed over and over: they update their status every few hours, set every application they play with to publish what they've done, and their comments on photos and everything. The other 90% of my friends never say a word. Admittedly I find my interest waning.

11-18-2009, 04:34 PM	#4
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	You can block application updates to your feed (like Mafia Wars). You can also block people in the feed (i.e. that annoying person who updates 40 times a day about nothing). I've been doing a social experiment. Not adding people, but merely seeing who adds me. (I've added probably 5 people total). The occasional person shows up out of the blue, that you barely remember, and end up connecting and that can be fun. I've also become a lot closer to some people now than I ever was in real life. As in, now if I go to the high school reunion, I might actually have a reason to chat.

11-18-2009, 04:40 PM	#5
ute4ever I must not tell lies Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,103	Ha I joked with my student body pres that thanks to facebook, we won't have to hold a reunion. Nearly everyone who I wondered about for years, I now know all about them. I look at where they went to college, where they work, see their photos, and I'm done. There's the occasional "let's do lunch" if they're local, and that's that.