Latinas Will Talk To You Using Any Means Necessary, Including Social Networking Sites
5 October 2009, 6:05 PM. By Alex Alvarez
A new survey featured on Information Is Beautiful, based on information compiled by Brian Solis and Google Ad Planner, shows that an overwhelming percentage of social media users happen to be women, the one big exception being the sausage fest that is Digg. Which is fine. Kevin Rose can feel free to call us should he feels the need to up his percentage of… ladyness
Of course, we’re specifically interested in how Latina women are making their presence known on the intertubes. Many creative, enterprising Latinas exist on the web, from the ladies over at Latina’s website to women who are using social media to get their own message across to, well. Certain bloggers. Whom you might know.
Rebecca Aguilar, for example, was moved by coverage of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings to create Wise Latinas Linked, a Facebook group for Latina to meet one another and swap advice and job info.
Other online hubs for Latinos, some for Latinas specifically, also exist, you just gotta know where to look for them. There is, for example, Twitteros, a site that helps you connect with Latinos across the web. And then there’s MySpace Latino, where you can share you love of tacky, sparkly .gifs with fellow Latinoids.
And there is also, of course, Las BMW (Book Mujeres Workshop), “a free members-only online club for readers brought together through a shared interest in the trailblazing, empowering vision of author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.”
Do feel free to share any other Latin@-centric social networking sites you might enjoy, Guanababies.
Latinas using social networking sites to share experiences [USA Today]
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If what you say in that headline were actually true, Guanabee’s posts would have tons of comments. Just sayin’.
We’re not a social networking site. And this site does have at least one Latina who talks and talks and talks… (or, more accurately, writes and writes and writes).
are you talking about me?
Always assume I’m being self-absorbed. I was totally talking about myself.
@Alex, what LOLIMNOTCLEVER says is kinda true. The headline reads: “Latina readers will talk to you using any means necessary.” The “social networking” part of the sentence is a phrase added on at the end, which doesn’t really change the fact that you’re suggesting that Latinas will use the internet to “talk” with each other (and that includes, but is not limited to, blogs, websites, social networking sites, etc.). Blogs, as you know, are a common way for people to “talk” to each other on-line. And, as IAMNOTCLEVER pointed out, there isn’t much “talking” going on around here at Guanabee, which is odd because you guys are clearly targeting educated Latinas. Where are they?
Note: I’m talking about educated Latinas other than the five regulars who always leave comments, which includes la Roncha.
That’s actually something we brought up during the focus group meeting we had in NY. The people who showed up say they read the site daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and enjoy the site enough to send posts along to friends, yet say they never comment on blogs - Guanabee or any other. Which I understand. I don’t usually comment on blogs other than Guanabee either and never once commented here when I was a reader rather than an editor. So I guess, then, that many of our readers either don’t enjoy commenting, read the posts and have nothing in particular they’d like to add, don’t want to create a profile, are at work and probably trying to look busy, etc.
I do wish more (thoughtful, funny, insightful) people would comment regularly though, obviously.
I rarely comment while I see the readers on my two blogs (www.bilingualintheboonies.com) and (www.tikitikiblog.com), there isn’t an overwhelming about of commenting — and both those sites target the same demo as this one.
Anyway, please check out La Blogadera (www.blogaderal.com). It is awesome. And for more social networking, the http://www.latism.org Twitter party on Thursdays is fun (search #latism) and the Friday Twitter posts tagged #vivaviernes are a great way to meet other Latinos via social networking.
Love you, Guanabee.
It’s a miracle you didn’t trash anyone in this article. Maybe because Alex wrote it and he’s not bitchy in the way what’s-her-face-is. You know, the one who talks caca about alisa valdes and jessica alba, based on ASSUMPTIONS.