Are women taking over the Internet?

July 28, 3:22 PMSF Boomers ExaminerSuzanna Stinnett

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I asked this question over at Great Adaptations, and the comments are carrying the conversation out in several directions. (My favorite response so far: “Of course women are taking over the Internet!”)

Research is required, statistics must be shown. I’ll get to that later this week  month year. I’m just observing the flood of responses to my call for participants in the book, “Web 55.0,” that is, the flood of women responding. Men? A few, and they’re brilliant too, just scarce.

Which set me to thinking. Wow, I thought, the Internet is the device women have been waiting for. Or working toward. Still, it is mostly innovated/designed/launched by men. Mostly. (If you listen closely now, you can hear my neurons firing into multiple brain regions as I begin to seriously ponder the dynamics of tech innovation and cultural change.) I’m going to make a wild prediction here. This male-female thing is going to coalesce into a non-topic as the male-innovated technology gets picked up by the apronful and put into use by women. It’s like the global brain is merging all its polarities, the left-right hemispheres, the sensory cross-over, and coming up with gender-nonspecificity. Not to worry, one thing is certain: It will change again. In a few minutes.

I talked to Janet Tokerud this morning about texting and mobility and the iPhone. Janet’s an early adopter (she pointed out that I say early “adapter,” we’ll talk about that later too), and her sense of the enormous and enormously diverse playground of technology is something to behold. Witness two high-firing neurological fields (people) with the advantages of the female physiology (right-left brain integration capacity is one small example) talking onground about the online worlds, what works, what doesn’t, what’s bound to happen next or soon. By the time I left Janet my own brain was buzzing like a construction site before the real estate crash. (“We need some more wire over here! Move-it-move-it-move-it!”)

The most exciting thing for me is the recognition of the brains coming together these days online. Right now, in my own mind, neural pathways are hooking together and forming new neural bundles from which whole gestalts embark. These neural pathways are informed by the conversations I’m having with women and men, but the ones doing the jumping-bean in my noggin right now are Janet Tokerud,  Erica O’Grady, Beverly Mahone,  Pam Archer,  Debbie Stevens,  Sonia Simone, Eileen Williams,  Jenn Givler, and Lu Pierro.  It’s like there are ten suns in the sky.

That’s a lot of neural firing. I think I need some more krill oil  and a glass of water.

Question then. Is the phrase “social media” redundant?

Suzanna

See the original conversation here.

Why krill oil?