According to a report released by the Pew Research Center, blogging has declined particularly for both teens and young adults since 2006 as indicated by the figure provided by Pew Research Center.
The Pew Research Study results, announced on 3 February revealed:
• 14 percent of online teens now say they blog, which is only half of what it was in 2006.
• Fewer teens comment on blogs associated with social networking Web sites; 52 percent of teen social network users report commenting on friends’ blogs, down from the 76 percent who did so in 2006.
• Since 2005, only one in 10 online adults maintain a personal online journal or blog.
Measured across the four-year period, blogging decreased for younger and increased somewhat with older Internet users:
• In December 2007, 24 percent of online 18- to 29-year-olds reported blogging. By 2009, that number had dropped by almost half, to just 15 percent of these users maintaining a blog. That represents a nine-percentage-point drop in two years.
It appears from the research results that American teenagers are more interested in using social networking website (74%). Compared with the 2008 study, Pew found that a smaller proportion of teens now are sending daily messages to friends via social networking sites. (SMS remains the most popular method for sharing quick info updates.) Teens are not using Twitter in large numbers. One-third of young adults (18-29) are likely users of Twitter. As the user’s age increases, the use of Twitter falls.
Facebook is currently the most commonly used online social network among adults. Among adult profile owners, 73% have a profile on Facebook, 48% have a profile on MySpace, and 14% have a LinkedIn profile.
