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tzel).
These Stats show that the average LJ user is an 18-year-old girl. In and of itself, 18-year-old girls making use of this journaling service is not a bad thing. 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, making sure to include 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.
Seriously. Six Apart needs to see that their current stats are skewed, and we're not all teens on here.
tzel).These Stats show that the average LJ user is an 18-year-old girl. In and of itself, 18-year-old girls making use of this journaling service is not a bad thing. 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, making sure to include 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.
Seriously. Six Apart needs to see that their current stats are skewed, and we're not all teens on here.
