During a ten-minute experimental trial, female subjects worked 2.5 minutes compared to 2.1 minutes for male subjects without a privacyfilter installed and 4.9 minutes versus 4.3 minutes for male subjects with a privacyfilter installed.
The lesson for social networkers is to filter their MySpace postings before they hit the Web, says Kevin Bankston, a privacy attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.