Infographic: Women use social media more than men
Women have 55 percent more posts on their Facebook walls than men, and 8 percent more Facebook friends. Also, 40 million more women visit Twitter every month than men.
If I post something to my younger brother’s Facebook wall, he usually doesn’t acknowledge it until a few days later.
I used to think this was because I didn’t rank high on his list of priorities, but an infographic from Quicksprout is making me think otherwise. It reports that women use social media more than men. Seventy-six percent of female Internet users use social media, compared to 72 percent of men.
But while women use social media more than men, they don’t reign supreme on every social network.
Women are more active than men on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, but men are more active on LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube.
Here’s how the numbers break down for some social media sites:
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