technoculture203-09

I believe there are preceivable differences in the performance of gender in technologies in society. Such differences in texting styles based on gender can be one of the example. I find that females tend to use more emotional emoticons when texting than males who just use simplified short texts. Also examining the profile pictures in social networking sites there are trends in these self-images according to gender. Females are more interested in sharing their social lives by writing diaries and uploading pictures regularly (often the kind of pictures taken with their friends having a party or any activity they are in not necessarily a picture of themself.) Not only this kind of gender performance are portrayed this way but are also performed online. One thing that I found which might not be so relevant but the way males don't tend to chat or have long conversation with their mates (of same gender) whereas girls would do so. The organisation of lists of friends might be one of the difference where females (myself and some of my female friends) usually categorize people and organise them in groups of different kind e.g. close friends, gender etc. This was interesting because when I looked at my male friend's one his list of people on line was just in one simple list. These differences seem to show that females might be more socially opened than most males in society and maybe their stereotypical role as females have moulded them to perform differently.