Are you male or female?

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[–]Canbot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Women are more interested in people and men are more interested in things. Things are not exclusively physical objects, they are also ideas. Men are interested in conversations on the nature of things. Women are interested in what other people are doing, who they are, reputations, relationships, and status.

Facebook is not a place to have conversations about things, the format does not promote that. It is a platform to create a digital identity, to promote your status, to show off your relationships, and to build a persona with memes. Men are just not that interested in going through people's profiles.

Not that men don't want to have status, but for men that means doing things that take a while like getting a better job, bigger house, etc. Those things are pretty static. Where as a woman's status is based more on fleeting things like how active she was recently with other people. How attractive she is right now. The status of people she is currently interacting with. All things that need constant updating.

So a man is more likely to create a profile and not update it for years, and certainly not bother staying current on other people's feeds. Women are always trying to update their profiles and comparing themselves to others.

[–]dazedandsubdued 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

these are some pretty broad generalizations. many women i know IRL and online are very much interested in "ideas," if by ideas you mean social, political, and otherwise theoretical/sociological debate and analysis. many men i know are not that interested in ideas and indeed seem quite interested in other people's status, comparing themselves to others, their physical attractiveness. i'm a woman who i guess is interested in both, but spend very little time on platforms like instagram and facebook because they interest me far less than platforms such as this one where political and social issues can be discussed openly.

i am not into name-calling or writing anyone off for having differing opinions than mine, but it does seem like you are making some sexist assumptions about women and i wonder if you have considered than women are just as varied in terms of their interests as men?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am merely explaining the fact that sites like these are dominated by male participation and sites like facebook are dominated by female participation. You are arguing that because you are different than the average than the average must not exist, that is illogical. I'm sure nearly all women are interested in things to some degree; however, the reality remains that most women are MORE interested in people than they are interested in things. This has been proven with scientific studies, it is not something I extrapolated myself. I am simply applying known scientifically proven facts to the question of why we see these differences in platform preference between genders.