Women outnumber men on social networking sites

Women outnumber men on social networking sites. They say it's a man's world but it seems social networking is a woman's domain.

Females outnumber guys 2-1 across a host of websites, and more than half of Facebookers and Twitterers are women, informationisbeautiful.net figures show.

There's also a blizzard of key strokes from women on one of the original networking sites, MySpace, with more than two out of three members female.

A whopping 68 per cent of users on the newer Bebo, which allows users to create a timeline of their life, streamlines email accounts and updates from other online communities, are also women.

A whopping 68 per cent of users on the newer Bebo, which allows users to create a timeline of their life, are also women / File

Digital communications expert Dr Jason Wilson, from the University of Wollongong, said the gender balance on social networking sites was often a chicken-and-egg type question.

"It's about which came first the culture or the user base," Wilson said.

He said it was hard to pinpoint what exactly attracted women to certain sites.

"It's clear that sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, these social networking sites are offering a kind of internet experience that clearly has a strong appeal to women.

"One of the big underlying principles is sharing information, photos, videos."

But blokes still managed to claim one social networking domination gong.

Digg is a boy's club 64 per cent of its users are male.

Linkedin and YouTube had an equal number of male and female members. / news.com.au