More Women Crashing Google+ Sausage Party
Apparently, Google+ isn’t quite the frat party it first appeared to be.
Early reports had figured the membership of Google+ to be upwards of 87 percent male. But evidently the data on which those estimates were based — culled from sites like Socialstatistics.com and Findpeopleonplus.com — was skewed. Now, new analysis performed by Paul Allen of FamilyLink and Ancestry.com shows a very different gender balance.
That’s a dude-heavy social environment, compared to its more gender-balanced rival Facebook, but one whose gender distribution is a bit more equitable than the 90:10 ratio of men to women previously reported.
And it might be becoming more balanced by the day. According to Allen’s estimates, Google+ was 77 percent male and 23 percent female on July 4. Three days later it was 68.4 percent male and 31.6 percent female, and today it’s nearing a 2-to-1 male/female ratio.
That said, it was an awesome picture.
[Image credit: Evil Milk]