We thought it would be interesting to see what you can learn about a person from their email, so we decided to compare demographics and online behavior of people who use the four most popular internet email clients: AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail.
For this study, we sampled 120,000 users with @aol.com, @gmail.com, @hotmail.com, and @yahoo.com emails, and looked at their age, gender, online activity, friend counts, and social network memberships.
We broke this study into several parts so this post will only cover the age and gender data.
Overall, people who use these four webmail clients tend to be young, with over 75% of all users under 35 years of age. Part of the reason for this younger skew is that these demographics are based on self-reported data from public social media profiles, and the people who use social media are generally younger. Even so, comparing demographics between each of the email services offers insight into userbase differences.
Source: Rapleaf
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