Comments on: Social Networking – Gender and Cultural Differences http://www.endress-analytics.com/2010/07/social-networking-gender-differences/ Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Linda Parkinson-Hardman http://www.endress-analytics.com/2010/07/social-networking-gender-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Linda Parkinson-Hardman Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:16 +0000 http://www.endress-analytics.com/?p=503#comment-300 Hi and what an interesting point of view. I do think you could well be right about the cultural context of the success at social networking and you are quite right that I was looking at tiny sample of just 12 groups based in the Middle East. I think I did point out that it was not a scientific study by any means and was simply an exercise in seeing if I could engage with some of the groups we were trying to talk to online. In the UK, the split seems to be fairly even, with women and men fairly evenly matched in the social networking arena. One thing that impacts though is also the cultural context of the network itself - facebook groups seem to be female biased whilst Linkedin seems to be more male dominated. As with everything it seems there is always more than one side to the story. Linda Hi and what an interesting point of view. I do think you could well be right about the cultural context of the success at social networking and you are quite right that I was looking at tiny sample of just 12 groups based in the Middle East. I think I did point out that it was not a scientific study by any means and was simply an exercise in seeing if I could engage with some of the groups we were trying to talk to online. In the UK, the split seems to be fairly even, with women and men fairly evenly matched in the social networking arena. One thing that impacts though is also the cultural context of the network itself – facebook groups seem to be female biased whilst Linkedin seems to be more male dominated. As with everything it seems there is always more than one side to the story.

Linda

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