I stumbled upon this article written by Brian Solis. Very interesting numbers – although it’s nothing new. For some time, it has been rather known that women occupy social media more than their counterpart do.

Below is the figure taken from Information is Beautiful, which I think may really reflect the social media sphere. The basic logic in social networking sites – networking, obviously – appeals more to women. As seen from the numbers below, men dominate or equal with women in sites where there is less interactivity. YouTube, DeviantArt, and Digg. As for LinkedIn, it is more of a professional networking than social networking.

from Information is Beautiful

Women, on the other hand, dominate other social networking sites where interactivity, connectivity, and networking is the main feature of the sites: Hi5, Twitter, Facebook, Ning, Gaia, MySpace, Bebo, and others.

This social media figures reflect women in real live – IMO. At least Indonesian women . They like being present, keeping in touch with others, be a part of something, talking to others, sharing stories and information. Hence, in Indonesia we have arisan, and regular meet-ups with friends.

Now that we’ve lived our live partially in the online world, women takes those straits online and keep doing what they do in the offline world as well. Talking and being present.