The LJ drama generator...
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randomness...seems to generate very high school drama. I thought that was kind of odd, because even though I'd been told that the stereotypical LJ user was a 17 year old girl, I don't see much of that crowd. I got to wondering if the stereotype was true.
Boy, is it ever.
http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml shows that over two-thirds of LJ users are female. All those political bloggers wondering where the women are? Yeah, they're here. Over four million of them.
Also, the top of the age curve is in the 17-18 range, so those polibloggers best stay away, 'cause lots of them are underage.
Interesting tidbits:
There are more LJ accounts to people of high school age (15-18, over a million), than there are accounts to anyone over 21 (just over 910,000). There are almost as many middle school accounts (13 and 14, nearly 159,000) as there are accounts to people over 30 (around 160,500). A lot of users are undergrad age (19-22, over 830,000), but definitely not as many as high-schoolers.
All of these numbers are for accounts in general, not active accounts. Since only about 40% of LJ accounts are active in some way, I found myself wishing for some statistics that left out all the dead accounts.
Anyway, it was interesting to find out how close to the truth the stereotype actually was.
Boy, is it ever.
http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml shows that over two-thirds of LJ users are female. All those political bloggers wondering where the women are? Yeah, they're here. Over four million of them.
Also, the top of the age curve is in the 17-18 range, so those polibloggers best stay away, 'cause lots of them are underage.
Interesting tidbits:
There are more LJ accounts to people of high school age (15-18, over a million), than there are accounts to anyone over 21 (just over 910,000). There are almost as many middle school accounts (13 and 14, nearly 159,000) as there are accounts to people over 30 (around 160,500). A lot of users are undergrad age (19-22, over 830,000), but definitely not as many as high-schoolers.
All of these numbers are for accounts in general, not active accounts. Since only about 40% of LJ accounts are active in some way, I found myself wishing for some statistics that left out all the dead accounts.
Anyway, it was interesting to find out how close to the truth the stereotype actually was.
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Date: 2005-03-18 10:18 pm (UTC)It's funny really. It must be the circles that i surf/search/have shared interests. I've yet to stumble upon too many of the teeneriffic pages. That being said, there are quite a few folks in my circles who are of the 19-22 age bracket...and fellow club folk. So much of our shared drama is...well...club political or alcohol induced.
That being said, you could do an LJ generator which is more adult oriented and not so realistically harsh....like "OMG, I got so drunk last night that I mailed my mortgage off without putting a stamp on it. Now i've got to call my bank and..."
Gadzooks. You're right...that's too much like real life...
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Date: 2005-03-19 04:24 pm (UTC)Yah, it would just be a downer to read.