BlogHer released its 2009 Women in Social Media Study.  According to the study:

42 million women do some sort of social media activity weekly such as blogging, reading blogs, posting to message boards or visiting social networks
Women who use social media turn to blogs (55 percent) and social networks (75 percent) as primary sources of community [...]

I was surprised to run across a couple of very similar stories on social networking in USA Today and the New York Times. Basically, both question when — and if — sites like Facebook and MySpace will ever be able to successfully monetize their very attractive networks of users.

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I’ve wondered about [...]

We came across some interesting info recently on age and Internet use.
The under-30 crowd still dominates most categories on the Web, but older Americans are showing growth in some key areas of the Internet.
According to Hitwise.com, the 55+ age group has nearly doubled its presence on social networking sites in the last two years. From [...]