Who Uses Social Media More, Men or Women?

March 5th, 2010 admin

Men are more positively inclined towards social media activities and use social networking sites more than women, according to what Liberty Mutual called a “ comprehensive national survey” of online behavior it released yesterday. This is somewhat surprising, since it’s the exact opposite of what other surveys have found, including a recent one from Royal Pingdom that looked at user profile data from some of the major social networks. Among the findings in Liberty’s survey, which was done as part of the Responsibility…


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