Women use social networks to stay in touch,men prefer phone: study

The study,commissioned by Internet telecommunications company Rebtel,looked at the online habits of a group of 2,361 U S adults.

It found that 68 per cent of women use social media to stay in touch with their friends,compared to only 54 per cent of men,while 60 per cent of women use it to keep in touch with family,compared to only 42 per cent of men.

Women are also more likely to use social networks to correspond with their colleagues — 34 per cent compared to just 22 per cent of men.

“Our findings show that men tend to lag behind women when it comes to communicating with others through social media,which debunks other recent studies that suggest that men are more savvy networkers between the sexes,” the New York Daily News quoted Rebtel CEO Andreas Bernstrom as saying.