women more friendly than men
Use of Facebook, which now has more than 175 million active users world-wide, is consistent with a wide variety of evidence indicating that females are more sociable than males. Worldwide, Facebook has 1.18 female users per male user. In the U.S., which is the country with the largest number of Facebook users, Facebook has 1.36 female users per male user.
Cameron Marlow, a sociologist at Facebook, recently provided some data on interaction patterns on Facebook. The average Facebook user has 120 friends on the site. Women with this number of friends post comments on 10 friends' Facebook pages, while men post comments on 7 friends' Facebook pages. Similarly, women engage in email or chat with 6 friends on Facebook, while men do so with 4 friends on Facebook. A similar pattern of sex difference also occurs for Facebook users with 500 Facebook friends. My Facebook friends by sex spreadsheet, part of which I've attempted to embed below, organizes these data.
Tags: communication, Facebook, sex differences, sociality