Western Social Network Statistics

In the United States, 49.3 million people, users of social networks, were examined. As far as I know, this is the first global study of users of social networks. I hope that soon we will see data on Russian social networks.
In most social networks (“headliners”) - MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 - the number of women exceeds the number of men, and significantly.

In the 18-24 age group on Facebook, women: 1,685,029, and men: 977,753 - the difference is 1.7 times. On MySpace, in the same age category, the situation with the ratio is slightly different, but still, women prevail: 7,091,214 women versus 5,226,788 men.


Other interesting features:

• Women aged 14-24 are more active on social networks and have more friends than men of the same age.
• Men aged 35 and over are more active on social networks and have more friends than women of the same age.
• The average user of a social network has two to twenty-five friends.
• The strangely high (disproportionate) number of users is 69 years old. Most likely, this is due to the “virtuals” or false information about yourself, and the number 69 has several significant meanings.

People who were registered in at least one social network and truthfully indicated their age in the questionnaire (in the profile on the social network) were interviewed.

The study was done on June 10, 2008 by RapLeaf. Here are data based on the responses of 90% of respondents. In total, about 49 million US residents were interviewed.

Here are the complete statistics.

Social networks: gender and age in various social networks.

Social networks: gender, age and number of friends on social networks.

Since the site VKontakte.Ru provides convenient statistics, I decided to see what ratio we have. Here's what happened:


Download statistics on social networks in * .xls format.

Original post: Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks .
Russian version: Social networks. Statistics .