Blogger Paul Francis has updated his original post on Facebook member stats, providing the male-female breakout that proved ammunition for the ’shot heard round the world’ when Michael Arrington repeated Francis’ assumption that 2/3 of Facebook users are women.
Shocking, absolutely shocking to think that women like social networking more than men, apparently. But gratifying for the macho inclined to know that LinkedIn is a he-man kind of community, where men far outweigh the women. Thought not sure where the original data came for that assumption … maybe over drinks and cigars down at the club.
The Facebook stats even got the Guhvenuh of Kalifornia exercised, as he was heard to remark in a speech about his Democratic rival users of Facebook that:
“If they don’t have the guts to come out here in front of you and say, ‘I don’t want to be on Facebook, I want to be on LinkedIn … if they don’t have the guts, then I call them girlie men!” (Did I get that quote right? Let’s re-run that tape and listen again!)
Returning to our hero, Paul Francis, we find a slightly modified breakout of the stats in his update post, where we learn that while 1/3 of Facebook users clearly identify themselves as men (ok, girlie men … whatever!) the other 2/3 are split between those self-identified as women (42%) and and those who prefer the status of unspecified genders (21.71%).
There, now. That certainly clarifies things … doesn’t it? As Francis says, “if you were a regular user, with Facebook friends, there’s a pretty good chance you’d specify your gender.” I mean, wouldn’t you?
For the record, I’m a Facebook user (OK, girlie man … whatever!)
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27 November, 2007 at 6:10 pm
This resonates with me! Give me LinkedIn anytime.
The sheep-throwing, superpoking and garden-decorating FaceBook is getting a little too girly.
Unfortunately FB’s where everyone is having a party at this time. It’s probably the same tactic used by club and gym owners everywhere – bring in the women by lowering the cost of female membership (free entrance/lower fees) or making it more attractive to them; and the men will pay to join.
27 November, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Thanks for calling me a hero Michael – haha
We’ll probably never know the real truth, given the number of inactive, spam-based, deliberately false accounts there almost certainly are on Facebook. I was still amazed by the reaction though .. my poor little blog went from about 6 readers a day to over 2000!
I have both a Facebook and LinkedIn account .. are you saying I swing both ways
Cheers,
Paul..