scobleizer asks Jul 04, 2008 08:47AM why are there a lot more women on Plurk than have friended me on Twitter or FriendFeed?
jjprojects Jul 04, 2008 08:51AM I've noticed there are a lot more men than wormen on Friendfeed, in the conversations anyway.
jjprojects Jul 04, 2008 08:54AM There are just as many women on Twitter though I think. Maybe it's the kind of conversations you have scobleizer, not sure.
web2marketing says Jul 04, 2008 08:54AM because here they can talk till their karma drops - like real life
Jena says Jul 04, 2008 10:08AM because the knitting community (we're a powerful blogging force, too) have embraced Plurk.
jon426 says Jul 04, 2008 11:50AM i'm not a knitter but i agree with jena. they are all over plurk. i'm amazed at their numbers.
Amie says Jul 04, 2008 12:45PM plurk is interactive. And shiny. I have noticed that FF in particular seems very male (although I am there, too)
sillypixie says Jul 04, 2008 01:08PM good question. I'm here because the interactions I have on plurk seem to have more value than a scrolling scream of tweets...
ElizabethPW says Jul 04, 2008 01:53PM plurk is much more pretty than friendfeed. weird that it matters, but I think that's one reason. and little emoticons.
Djinn1973 says Jul 04, 2008 02:10PM Not sure how many "women" there are but there sure are a lot of people using female names...
Madame Maracas has Jul 04, 2008 02:16PM a working set of ovaries & prefers an interface that WORKS, ability to follow conversations & back track (that working part) of Plurk.
Madame Maracas thinks Jul 04, 2008 02:57PM Plurk = potassium and we're all needing some extra, hence the banana situation
RogueTess Jul 04, 2008 03:29PM hopes scobleizer has the patience 2 read and respond to plurks (incl his own) cuz that's how to build your community and have a GREAT time!
margalit says Jul 04, 2008 03:32PM Plurk is more of a women's platform than Twitter. It's more interactive and thus has deeper conversations.
zenith says Jul 04, 2008 04:32PM way to go with the stereotypes! A woman here who isn't particularly impressed by 'pretty colour' and hates the timeline.
LindaZ says Jul 04, 2008 04:37PM Rogue Tess he is not participating cuz he does not like plurk - remember plurk is conversation not announcements
LindaZ says Jul 04, 2008 04:38PM and he certainly does not need to build community he already has his following, are we not continuing this conversation without him
DSN wants Jul 04, 2008 04:40PM to know if someone really plurked that women can't ressit *the dancing banana*?
PurpleCar Jul 04, 2008 04:40PM This is the stupidest, sexist conversation I've seen in social media to date. The jokes don't strike me as funny.
PurpleCar Jul 04, 2008 04:44PM It's fine to observe the demographics, but it isn't ok to joke like this. Replace the comments to be making fun of a race; see how bad it is
Myrnaslist says Jul 04, 2008 04:44PM lindaz you know how a dog pees all around when you're walking him? He's just simply marking his territory. Dogs don't care so much about
RogueTess says Jul 04, 2008 04:58PM LindaZ I guess it's OUR community. I like the "not announcements" observation! I attend to the plurks:ann ratio when adding friends.
RogueTess says Jul 04, 2008 05:02PM I'm gonna mute this thread now. Why build up scobleizer's karma????
DBM says Jul 05, 2008 02:49PM Just read - target audience is women so they are doing a good idea reaching us. Of interest....I joined because I got....
DBM says Jul 05, 2008 02:50PM a notification from indenti.ca that another woman wanted to friend me here. Is that how they do it?
captainahab says Jul 06, 2008 01:14PM aye, beauties be plentiful in thee plurk lands. Why thee be pointing at me Scobleizer?
MikeLewis says Jul 13, 2008 02:49PM Plurk encourages people to post thoughts and feelings. Why would a woman not love a service like this.
MikeLewis says Jul 13, 2008 02:50PM besides, all people talk about on Friendfeed is Friendfeed. You're going to bore a woman and a lot of men real quick with endless bantor.
CreativeSage says Jul 13, 2008 06:35PM I actually prefer FriendFeed to Plurk so far, and I'm not sure it's divided by gender. I have about equal female and male friends on both.
CreativeSage says Jul 13, 2008 06:37PM I'll add that the conversation on Plurk seems a little bit less techie than FriendFeed, but I just got on Plurk.
Sheryl says Jul 17, 2008 09:35PM women like the pretty emoticons? (Ok, enough with the dumb women comments) Women and men think and interact differently. It could be simple
CreativeSage says Aug 11, 2008 05:59AM I've friended you here, too, Robert. I think you still have to friend me back. Maybe Plurk has more women overall? I'm not sure of stats.
johnbudnik says Aug 11, 2008 01:50PM My female friends prefer Plurk to FF or Twitter. There's something about the emoticons and backgrounds that appeals to them
HighDef says Aug 11, 2008 03:54PM it's probably due to Plurk being a much better platform in all ways, and because you're such a manly stud.
etorsten Aug 14, 2008 03:35PM because it´s much more conversational than twitter and not so "ego-centered"
elise_caile wants Aug 15, 2008 06:18PM to know if you still think plurk is only going to be popular with 14-year-old girls (per a june post she just read via a blog).
rosevictor thinks Dec 01, 2008 04:16PM maybe people Are relizeing that your on here now i think that a good answer
MarillaAnne Mar 07, 2009 07:15AM because it's fun, fast, organized, easy, wonderful ... and full of other brilliant company
MarillaAnne Mar 07, 2009 07:15AM It's actual conversation and i don't have to jump all over the place to follow a thread. ... i really love that.