Girls Just Want to Have Fun….and then, write about it!

Girls just want to have fun

Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics said it like this….”As Social Media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space”.

It’s not surprising to me, on the contrary, it makes perfect sense that women would take the realm of Social Media by the reigns, proving to themselves, and to forums like Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin, that they’ve got a pretty firm grip…in fact, they’ve got total control.

To understand the brilliant connection between women and the vast array of social media forums out there….you have to consider the history of women. In fact, you might as well go right back to ol’ Eve in the Garden of Eden who just couldn’t resist the urge to go off “socializing”….didn’t seem to matter that it was a serpent…it talked, and that was good enough for the woman.

Women by nature were designed to connect emotionally, verbally, and physically with other humans, and while you can’t physically connect on these forums, women, more so than men…find it irresistible to “poke” one another. They simply can’t help themselves. Ladies have always loved to exchange stories, boast, ramble, brag, inquire, and OBTAIN info about others…(but surely not gossip). And while the terminology has been refurbished to more “modern” verbs such as, share, post, blog, poke, question, like, etc.., you can be sure…the vocabulary is the same as it ever was.

Socializing for women no longer requires a tea pot, a park bench, an outing or a department store “sale”; just a thought, an idea, a prompting, a keypad and a friend….or 500 friends! The “more the merrier” as we women love to say.