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Jun. 21st, 2006 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuseJoining in a little bit in the OMGNOEZLJISTURNINGINTO)MYSPACE kerfuffle to pass this along, through friendsfriends or something via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
niquaeli:
These stats show that the average LJ user is an 18-year-old girl. In and of itself, 18-year-old girls making use of this journaling service is not a bad thing. But there are certain assumptions about teenaged girls, and what they want, and how to market to them. If you're worried about the potential MySpace-ization of LJ1 and concerned that Six Apart is ignoring the more mature portion of its userbase, here's what you can do:
1) Go here and specify your full date of birth, making sure to include your year of birth. If you don't want everyone to see how old you are, make sure the box that says "show your birthday to other users" is unchecked. The important thing is to get yourself into the database. Do this for any and all LJ accounts you have.
2) Re-post this.
I will note that I'm an 18 year old girl myself, so I won't be doing this, but I know there are people on my flist who don't fall into that category who may not have seen this; and it seems more useful than petitions and so forth. Also a lot more honest.
ETA: dude, that's a perfect bell curve on the stats page. I'm not a statistics fan but I do think that's sort of pretty, but BREAK IT, guys.
niquaeli:These stats show that the average LJ user is an 18-year-old girl. In and of itself, 18-year-old girls making use of this journaling service is not a bad thing. But there are certain assumptions about teenaged girls, and what they want, and how to market to them. If you're worried about the potential MySpace-ization of LJ1 and concerned that Six Apart is ignoring the more mature portion of its userbase, here's what you can do:
1) Go here and specify your full date of birth, making sure to include your year of birth. If you don't want everyone to see how old you are, make sure the box that says "show your birthday to other users" is unchecked. The important thing is to get yourself into the database. Do this for any and all LJ accounts you have.
2) Re-post this.
I will note that I'm an 18 year old girl myself, so I won't be doing this, but I know there are people on my flist who don't fall into that category who may not have seen this; and it seems more useful than petitions and so forth. Also a lot more honest.
ETA: dude, that's a perfect bell curve on the stats page. I'm not a statistics fan but I do think that's sort of pretty, but BREAK IT, guys.
