The "2009 Women and Social Media Study" prepared by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners is out.
Here is BlogHer's press release about this year's study.
This is About.com: Women's Issues "take" on the study findings.
And here is the report (in slide show format).
79 million women in the US use the Internet.
53% actively participate in some type of social media at least weekly.
8 million author blogs (kudos to us); 12 million post to blogs.
And we Twitter and use forums and lots of other stuff.
We do it for fun, community, to get information, seek advice, stay informed.
I'd like to see more women blogging. But US women - and girls - definitely have a marked presence on the Internet. Go, girls!
And we take a lot of flack for being "mommy bloggers" or "menopausal retirees with nothing to do"...and I'm paraphrasing a man's blog.
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