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I'm a 37 year old (jeez, typing that suddenly made me feel much, much older) male. I went from being an early, avid, oversharing Facebook user to quitting it 6 months back.

But that's just what it is. Two anecdotal examples which by themselves neither prove nor disprove anything.

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Well, yes, though I'm not using myself as an example, so much as the people I know, and I happen to be the type of person this survey was looking at.

>male

Are you a dog or something? Because the proper word for describing a male of the human species is "man". You're not a male, you're a MAN.

Woof! You got me there. I'm a dog, because then of course it makes perfect sense to you when I say I am a 37 year old male :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_y...

I've never heard anyone say that male is an inappropriate term for a man. Both terms are acceptable in their own context.

It's largely a UK/US-ism I think. It's inappropriate in not-America to say you're male. "Male" just means you're an animal with dangly bits.

US doctor: "A 24 year old male presents with..."

UK doctor: "A 24 year old man presents with..."

Here's the Cambridge dictionary on the word: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/male_3

Note the example: "Among the bodies are two unidentified British males."

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