The Battle of the Sexes: Social Networking

30 million social networkers were surveyed by a company called Rapleaf that churned some interesting results. The focus of the study was how many "friends" a social networker had, and segmenting age as well as sex groups out of the group polled. "Within this group, women averaged 62 friends while men averaged 57 friends." That said, reasonings for this have been postulated at classifying the female users as more "nurturing" in regards to social network relationship building. On the other end of the spectrum, the male users were thought to focus on " acquiring relationships from a transactional point of view" when looking at social network relationships.

Although it's tough to attribute the real rationale behind these findings, it is rather interesting!