Amadlom

Peer Review

Hello Alex!

Based off your Wiki history, I am assuming you added content to the "Social Media" section of the "Gender" Wikipedia page. I thought this was a well-chosen topic as it is very relevant and timely. I thought the research you and your partner gathered was interesting, particularly the various male vs. female statistics.

There is one line in the third paragraph that begins with the words, "More shockingly..." and I feel as if this may be bridging into more of an opinion rather than a fact. It is a strong point overall, but perhaps you and your partner could consider re-wording that so it's more objective for Wikipedia.

Also, in the fourth paragraph, the statement "Until then, gender will never be equal, which is a problem..." could probably use some more detail as to why this is problem/the problems that are caused by this inequality to make it more factual. Beside that, I thought your connection to social media as a tool to address this inequality was a great point.

I was glad to see that you touched briefly on social media in the form of online dating sites as more and more relationships today are formed online. I feel this would be a strong area to expand upon someday - it could probably be its own section - but for this assignment, I think mentioning it is more than sufficient.

Grammatically speaking, I did not change much beside adding or deleting a few commas here and there and adding a few clarifying words if a sentence seemed disconnected. Overall, I thought this was a strong contribution to this Wikipedia article just be aware of opinion-sounding statements. Nice job!

Emily.karkoska (talk)

P.S. I posted the same comments on Steven's talk page.

Emily.karkoska (talk)

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The main reason young adults in the U.S. give for visiting social network sites is to connect and communicate with others and to satisfy their curiosity about their online friends and acquaintances (Urista et al., 2009). Adolescent girls generally use them to communicate with peers and to reinforce preexisting relationships, while boys more often use the platforms to meet new people and make new friends. Boys are also more likely to identify with groups on social network sites that differ from their offline peer circles (Barker 2009; Lenhart and Madden, 2007a).

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Teens as a demographic group are avid internet and social media users in the United States. A recent survey found that almost all U.S. teens (95%) aged 12 through 17 are online, compared to only 78% of adults. Of these teens, 80% have profiles on social media sites, as compared to only 64% of the online population aged 30 and older (Lenhart et al., 2011). According to a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 11-to-18 year olds spend on average over one and a half hours a day using a computer and 27 minutes per day visiting social network sites, more than one fourth of their daily computer use (Rideout et al., 2010).

More girls than boys use Facebook and Twitter; female users, including teens, also predominate on the online pinboard Pinterest. Conversely, more males use music-sharing sites such as last.fm, as well as Reddit, a social news website known for its sometimes misogynistic content (HuffPost Women 2012; Williams 2012).2

Various studies have suggested that men and women value and use technology differently. A recent Forbes article reported that Facebook is currently 57% women and that women are more active, with 8% more friends and accounting for 62% of the sharing (Goudreau, 2010). In a study of students from four public universities, Junco, Merson, and Salter (2010) found that women spent more time sending text messages than men, as well as spending more time on social networking sites. Tufekci (2008) found that in most Western cultures, social networking activities related to keeping up with friends and family are typically dominated by females. — Preceding unsigned comment added by StevenJames93 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

For all that it may appear to be self-revealing, the information girls and boys display about themselves in their profiles is not necessarily accurate. Both genders report experimenting 7 with their online presentation and posting untruthful information to their profiles, such as lying about their age to make themselves older. Results from a Pew survey indicate that 56% of American adolescents with online profiles have posted false information on social media sites. Teenage boys posted fabricated information more often than girls (Lenhart and Madden, 2007b). Moreover, in a survey of more than 300 Dutch adolescents, Valkenburg et al. (2005) found gender differences in the kinds of information male and female teens misrepresented in online interactions. Boys pretended to be more macho, whereas girls pretended they were older and tried to give the impression of being more beautiful. Another study by the Girl Scouts of America found that girls who would describe themselves as "smart" or "kind" offline were more likely to post they were "fun," "funny," or "social" on social network sites, and girls with low self-esteem were somewhat more likely than girls with high self-esteem to describe themselves as "sexy" and "crazy" (Carmon, 2010). Other research points to a tendency for both adolescent girls’ and boys’ online self-presentations to mirror their real self in terms of personality traits. Back et al. (2010) asked 236 young adults from Germany and the United States to describe their ideal self and answer a questionnaire to assess personality traits such as openness and extroversion; in addition, research observers rated the participants’ profiles. The authors found that the participants’ personality scores reflected the observer ratings better than the idealized self-descriptions. Thus while teens may consciously distort the truth to appear more attractive, they have less control over how their personality subconsciously influences their profile descriptions.

Teen girls and boys differ in what they post in their online profiles. Studies have shown that female users tend to post more "cute" pictures, while male participants were more likely to post pictures of them doing action activities. Women in the U.S. also tend to post more pictures of friends, while boys tend to post more about sports, and humorous links. The study also found that males would post more alcohol and sexual references. (Peluchette and Karl, 2008). The roles were reversed however, when looking at a teenage dating site. Women refereed to sexual references significantly more than males.

Boys share more personal information, like their hometown and phone number. While girls are more conservative about the personal information they allow to go public on these sites.Boys, meanwhile, are more likely to orient towards technology, sports, and humor in the information they post to their profile (Sveningsson Elm, 2007)<ref><ref>

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