Yup, it's true. Women tend to speak or text to create rapport much more than males do. How do I know that? It happens in my home. My wife is outstanding at being timid on the web and also wants to make everyone in her group that she is speaking to, to be involved.
Just as the graph suggests, she tends to get social support from her social networking sites, when she is interacting with other women. As opposed to me, when interacting with my friends, the getting is much less.
It's also evident that much of her words used in a posting are based on an emotional response to the conversational subject. This creates the need for the support from other women who, consequently, also base their responses on emotion, which can help heal the pain, so to speak.
I, on the other hand, seem to fall right in line with the article's findings, where I find myself wanting to protect my "social standing" and would rather not show a sign of weakness. Just the facts, ma'am.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
I Totally Agree With Facebook
What can I say, this particular article is fascinating. I find that the results found in this writing are more accurate (when compared to my everyday experiences) and I can relate to them in my personal life more than the previous writings throughout the semester.
My wife spends some of her time on Facebook and therefore writes a lot on the "walls" of others and also tends to instant-message many of her friends. Every once in a while I take a peek at what she's saying (she knows I'm watching) and I find many similarities in the way she "speaks" online to the way women were studied by Guiller and Durndell. Her postings and chats are filled with qualifiers and opinion, and were almost always positive. Even when she had to make a disagreeable statement, she had difficulty in being negative.
Contrary to that, I rarely use Facebook, but when I do chat with friends online, I have no problem being negative if that's what it takes to get what I want. The statistics found in the study say that 23% of the postings are from males, and 77% are from females. You can't argue with those results, especially when I see it first hand in my home.
The females using the words such as "totally," "really," and "very" in postings, also shows that they tend to write similar to how they tend to speak. My sister-in-law and wife are notorious for using these intensifiers within all of their conversations.
My wife spends some of her time on Facebook and therefore writes a lot on the "walls" of others and also tends to instant-message many of her friends. Every once in a while I take a peek at what she's saying (she knows I'm watching) and I find many similarities in the way she "speaks" online to the way women were studied by Guiller and Durndell. Her postings and chats are filled with qualifiers and opinion, and were almost always positive. Even when she had to make a disagreeable statement, she had difficulty in being negative.
Contrary to that, I rarely use Facebook, but when I do chat with friends online, I have no problem being negative if that's what it takes to get what I want. The statistics found in the study say that 23% of the postings are from males, and 77% are from females. You can't argue with those results, especially when I see it first hand in my home.
The females using the words such as "totally," "really," and "very" in postings, also shows that they tend to write similar to how they tend to speak. My sister-in-law and wife are notorious for using these intensifiers within all of their conversations.
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