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Social Media and Young Adults report shows teen blogging on the decline
Pew Internet released a report yesterday called Social Media and Young Adults that shows teen blogging down by 50% over the past four years, even as blogging increased among those over 30 years old.
The report also shows that teens are not very likely to be Twitter users (only 8% of internet users between the ages of 12 and 17 report using the service), even though they are heavy users of almost all other online applications; in fact, 73% of "wired American teens" are social networking website users. Twitter seems to stick out as a service that younger people are not as interested in.
Interestingly, even as MySpace popularity wanes overall, young people are still almost double as likely to maintain a profile there as are older adults, who have moved on to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
The report's summary has a ton of other interesting statistics about social network and wireless usage, which as Mashable points out, seems to indicate that teens just don't seem to be very interested in content creation, compared to adults. This seems somewhat counterintuitive, but you can't argue with the numbers.
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You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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michas_pi said 6:10PM on 2-05-2010
In related news, teenage attention spans are shortening at a geometric rate.
Prepare for the age of femto-blogging, but count me out. Damn kids.
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astrotoyseven said 8:18PM on 2-05-2010
This stat makes sense. Compared to tweeting "whoa I just took a dump," completing a whole blog post would seem like homework to a lot of teens.
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AdvancedNoob said 1:00AM on 2-06-2010
now... we are drifting away.. most teens like me don't feel like blogging because there are too many of them, and unlike you guys there are blogs that hire people to post and they blog like 24x7... so who's gonna read our blogs except our family and friends.. yeah you could say if the posts are good you would read them,but the fact is there are none we know.. and twitter is kind of hard for new people...
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dishonest john said 7:11AM on 2-06-2010
for those of us raised on, you know..sentences and paragraphs? going into a chat, forum or blog where creating an entire sentence is akin to heavy lifting, a sample of frustrating "content" might go as follows:
hey!
hi___(name)
whatcha doin?
going to work
work sucks
HI___(name)
bye___(name)
came in last night
helloooo!
hi____(name)
hi(name)
bye(name)
gotta feed the dog
BRB
hello everyone
you suck
well, you get the picture. and these are suposedly grown up sites not kid sites. the kid sites have got to be 100 times worse.
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AdvancedN0ob said 9:09AM on 2-06-2010
and your point is?
kripssmart said 12:14PM on 2-06-2010
yeah.. whats you point??
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Rich said 12:28AM on 2-07-2010
That is weird, you really would expect it to be the other way around.
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