b2b news - A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that US teens are turning their backs on blogging just as they are more wirelessly connected than ever before.
The report found that in 2009 just 14% of teenagers said they blogged, which is down from 28% 2006.
Sinking 52% from 76% three years earlier is the number of teens who said they commented on blogs in online social networking communities.
"Youth may be exchanging macro-blogging for micro-blogging with status updates," the authors of the study said, referring to the popularity of sharing life updates in terse text messages.
According to the Pew report, adults devotion to blogs has not faded, with roughly one in ten grown-ups keeping online journals or blogs in a ratio that hasn't changed since 2005.
But in 2009, the number of people blogging, ages 18 to 29, dropped to 15% from 24% two years earlier.
In 2009, 11% of people age 30 or older say that they were blogging, while in 2007 there were only 7%.
Popularity for Social networking was gained with 73% of teenagers claiming to belong to online communities. However, teenagers said they were cutting back on sending daily messages to friends via social networks.
According to Pew, MySpace attracted a younger crowd while Facebook was more popular with the older crowd.
Teenagers were also found to be major users of almost all online applications except for microblogging service Twitter.
Only 8% of Internet users ages 12 to 17 said they used Twitter, but nearly two thirds used texting to communicate.
Young adults were the heaviest Twitter users, with a third of people ages 18 to 29 posting or reading "tweets," according to Pew.
Sinking 52% from 76% three years earlier is the number of teens who said they commented on blogs in online social networking communities.
"Youth may be exchanging macro-blogging for micro-blogging with status updates," the authors of the study said, referring to the popularity of sharing life updates in terse text messages.
According to the Pew report, adults devotion to blogs has not faded, with roughly one in ten grown-ups keeping online journals or blogs in a ratio that hasn't changed since 2005.
But in 2009, the number of people blogging, ages 18 to 29, dropped to 15% from 24% two years earlier.
In 2009, 11% of people age 30 or older say that they were blogging, while in 2007 there were only 7%.
Popularity for Social networking was gained with 73% of teenagers claiming to belong to online communities. However, teenagers said they were cutting back on sending daily messages to friends via social networks.
According to Pew, MySpace attracted a younger crowd while Facebook was more popular with the older crowd.
Teenagers were also found to be major users of almost all online applications except for microblogging service Twitter.
Only 8% of Internet users ages 12 to 17 said they used Twitter, but nearly two thirds used texting to communicate.
Young adults were the heaviest Twitter users, with a third of people ages 18 to 29 posting or reading "tweets," according to Pew.
