Women are known to typically disclose more information in face to face communication
than men (Dindia 2002), and so this may be expected to extend to online
contexts that have a flavor of interpersonal communication. Before social network
sites, when personal homepages were a major way to express online identities and
privacy concerns may have been lower, women seemed to post more personal
information online than men. A study of adolescents found that girls’ personal
homepages contained information about romantic relationships more often, for
example, as well as referencing friends and family more frequently (Stern 2004).