Women like Pinterest, and men like Reddit: Breakdown of social media use by gender reveals browsing habits of each sex

Want to meet women online? Well, it seems you might have the best chance on Pinterest - 72 per cent of that site's users are of the fairer sex.

An analysis has revealed how the social media browsing habits of men and women differ, and it shows some remarkable results.

Of course, it's probably no surprise that women love the social pinboard Pinterest, or that Reddit is full of sexist, technology obsessed men.

'Move over, I want to look at Pinterest': A breakdown of social media use has revealed the different kinds of sites visited by men and women

But more surprising is that more than half of YouTube users are male - perhaps all looking for fight clips and girls shaking booty - and that 62 per cent of Twitter users are female.

The data has been harvested from Google Ad Planner and put into this rather neat infographic by data journalist David McCandless for his site Information Is Beautiful.

It shows that the ladies generally prefer sites which allow them to connect with their friends, like Facebook and Myspace, while men seem to prefer social networks where they can find stuff out, like Digg and del.icio.us.

Men also seem to prefer music based social networks like Soundcloud and Last.fm, while women prefer those on which they can share pictures, like Instagram, and ones in which they can catch up with old friends from real life, like Classmates.com and Mylife.