Modern youth are not interested in blogs
February 5, 2010 – 11:28 pm
specialists from the organization Pew Internet and American Life found that blogs, or traditional online diaries have ceased to interest today’s young people, who now spend their leisure time only in the popular social networks.
As the Infox, whereas in 2006 their own blog can boast 28% of teenagers, in 2009 the proportion of young lovers services like Livejournal or Blogger decreased to 14%. The number of active commentators during these three years also fell in half. According to the statistics of American adults still faithfully write in their online diaries.
Hobbies young people, by contrast, have changed. According to the Pew Internet and American Life, 73% of all American young people having access to the network, uses services of Facebook and MySpace, while in 2006 only 55% of teens actively writing in social networks.
As it turns out, Twitter has not yet enjoyed special success among the young – only 8% of adolescents aged 12-17 years stated that mastered mikroblog. As a replacement for the popular young adult audience service uses SMS – statistics, short messages written 66% of all teenagers.
What’s interesting, for access to your favorite resources, the younger generation is increasingly was to use their netbooks and smartphones, and this trend has led to the transition to a “small forms” in online communication – inconvenient keyboards simply do not have to write long blog entries.
In addition, a mobile lifestyle and has influenced the choice of computers among young people – so, among respondents aged 18 to 29 years only 53% said that they have a stationary PC, with the share holders of netbooks or laptops was 66 %.
