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Girls Dominate The Social Networking World

The growth in membership and usage of social networking sites has been driven by teens, and older teenage girls figure prominently in driving their rise.

Boys and girls tend to use the Myspaces and other social networking sites a little differently. The Pew Internet & American Life project surveyed a number of teens nationally, and found that when it comes to visiting Facebook, MySpace, or any one of a number of their competitors, girls have been the more social gender.

“For girls, social networking sites are primarily places to reinforce pre-existing friendships; for boys, the networks also provide opportunities for flirting and making new friends,” Pew researchers Amanda Lenhart and Mary Madden said  in their report.

Although 55 percent of the teens surveyed said they had used social networking sites, the teens aren’t as clueless about online threats as some adults believe. Two-thirds of the teens who have created profiles have used privacy controls to limit access to them.