Never thought that facebook would have a gender divide!

Today's lecture discussion about male and female users using Facebook differently seemed quite interesting. There actually is a gender divide when I think about it, though not very obvious all the time.

The biggest difference I noticed was in terms of the status updates. The status updates of my female friends tend to be more emotional; about what they're feeling at the moment or what has their day been like - the majority of them tend to be quite 'whiny' - though some might not agree with this, still being whiny seems like quite a girl thing to me. On the other hand, the status updates by male friends usually tend to be one liners or one words and have nothing whatsoever to do with their feelings!

Another thing that I've noticed is that it my female friends use Facebook much more than my male friends. By this I mean, they update their status more often, use facebook chat more often, publish wall posts, use an uncountable number of applications and games and do tons of quizzes. And these quizzes and applications are usually the ones which predict their future or give them some sort of detail about their love life or the lack of it. The males seem to do much less of all the things just mentioned and it's pretty great to have that because then my news feed isn't filled with completely irrelevant rubbish - no insult intended. And one other weird observation - guys tend to swear more on facebook than girls when writing on people's walls or updating their status. I found this interesting because I do have a few female friends who swear but even they don't do so on facebook.

Something to think about maybe?!