The Social Software Weblog http://socialsoftwarenews.communityportalsonline.socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com The Social Software Weblog http://socialsoftwarenews.communityportalsonline.socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/media/feedlogo.gif The Social Software Weblog http://socialsoftwarenews.communityportalsonline.socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Female-named chat users get 25X more malicious commentshttp://socialsoftwarenews.communityportalsonline.socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/05/19/female-named-chat-users-get-25x-more-malicious-comments/http://socialsoftwarenews.communityportalsonline.socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/05/19/female-named-chat-users-get-25x-more-malicious-comments/http://socialsoftwarenews.communityportalsonline.socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/05/19/female-named-chat-users-get-25x-more-malicious-comments/#commentsFiled under: , ,

The University of Maryland has released a new study finding that chat room users with female names receive twenty five times more malicious comments than users registered with typically male or gender ambiguous names.  Female usernames, on average, received 163 malicious private messages a day in the study!    It appears that the definition of malicious was relatively straight forward, too.  Further proof that technology doesn't solve all our social problems (did we need further proof?) even if no one on the internet does know you're a dog.

Found via Nancy White, author of the Full Circle Online Interaction Blog and an expert in IM/chat.  Several months ago I interviewed Nancy about international chat strategies and related topics.
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]]>webjustice2.0Marshall Kirkpatrick2006-05-19T19:54:00+00:00