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[tinyjo]

Pulled from a bunch of people:

These stats show that the average LJ user is an 18-year-old girl. I have nothing against 18-year-old girls. 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 LJ 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, including 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.

Worth a shot...

Comments

[mr-snips.livejournal.com]

Presumably the average paying customer is somewhat older, though? (I assume, perhaps unfairly, that LJ would rather attract paying customers than non paying ones :))

[shepline.livejournal.com]

Are there any statistics for how long people keep their LJs going for? I would have thought that the age distribution would ripple down as the the kids of today become the students of tomorrow, and the students now become the cynics later on...

Two factors to consider:

[dotty.livejournal.com]

- Paying for membership: surely NOT in the average age range they are specifying, youngsters spend it on other stuff, or Greater Journal/Dead Journal (for goths).

- Date of Birth being specified: surely, being older means that you are more aware of privacy, at least online, so under this idea, I think that older people are NOT represented in this survey/stats. All they did was to pull numbers from everyone who has specified their d.o.b. in their user page, *which is a completely false data to start with*.

[jinty]

The link you posted to wasn't very clear about what is really expected to happen, if at all. (It sounded a bit overly excited, to my mind.)

* What exactly is or might be the possible 'MySpace-isation' of LJ?
* Is there anything that might force LJ users over to Vox or other blogging sites, other than the threat of this possible MySpace-isation?

[jc.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the "show your birthday to other users" option didn't exist before, but regardless I'm glad you brought my attention to it with the new profile management pages. Thanks.

'Til your daddy took your T-bird away...

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

I have entered my details for the sake of the stats. But now I have a Beach Boys earworm about the statistically valid LJ Girlie...