Our youth are drifting to Twitter!
Blogs says the New York Times are on the wane. Facebook and Twitter reports the NY Times are now the preferred online choice for the younger generation.
The Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center found that from 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; now 14 percent of children those ages who use the Internet have blogs. Among 18-to-33-year-olds, the project said in a report last year, blogging dropped two percentage points in 2010 from two years earlier
It seems like only yesterday, but it was way back in 2004 that Merriam-Websters declared “blog” the word of the years. So many people began blogging — to share dieting stories, rant about politics and celebrate their love of cats — that Merriam-Webster declared “blog” the word of the year in 2004.The article leaves the impression there is little between cat blogs and the Huffington Post.
Newspapers may be feeling a little gleeful at this waning development because for some newspaper people blogs are the handy target for their own complex reasons of decline. However its just evolution as one expert says of Facebook,Twitter and blogs “Rather than being competitors, they are complementary […]“There is a lot of fragmentation ,but at this point, anyone who is taking blogging seriously — they’re using several mediums to get a large amount of their traffic.”
A distinguished touch of gray around the banner advert. A 2010 study showed an increase of 16%, six points in a two year period with 34 to 45 year olds who use the internet to blog.
Blogs everywhere: "The reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated."
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