Survey: One in Five Teens Have Own Blogs

Rob Updegrove 7 Nov, 2005 at 9:23am ET Article published in Tech

Almost 60% of teens now have their own blogs, according to Yahoo News.

CHICAGO – Nearly three in five school-age teens with Internet access have created online content, including Web pages with artwork, photos and stories — and about a fifth have their own blogs, which also allow friends and other readers to create feedback postings.

Those are some of the findings from a survey of 12- to 17-year-olds conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

The survey also found that older school-age girls with online access were most likely to keep a blog. About a quarter of girls, ages 15 to 17, did so, compared with 15 percent of boys in that age group.

Submitted by: Trogan_1000

Source: Yahoo!

Comments

7 Nov 2005 ~ 9:26am Garg Wait, so do "one in five" have their own blogs, or "sixty percent?"

Too much, in either case. It's almost like writing and reading about life has substituted for living it. Or maybe I'm getting old.
7 Nov 2005 ~ 2:19pm shwaip

Gargoyle wrote:

Wait, so do "one in five" have their own blogs, or "sixty percent?"

Too much, in either case. It's almost like writing and reading about life has substituted for living it. Or maybe I'm getting old.

I've never been so insulted by anyone implying that I have no life.

/me runs off to cry about it on my blog.
7 Nov 2005 ~ 2:51pm Shorty Blogs suck.
7 Nov 2005 ~ 2:57pm GnomeWizardd I have a myspace, I dont blogg often maybe once a week when I am pissed or something, Lately ive been meeting really nice girls off there! lol how sad is that!
7 Nov 2005 ~ 2:58pm Shorty Very :shakehead
7 Nov 2005 ~ 3:01pm GHoosdum

Gargoyle wrote:

Wait, so do "one in five" have their own blogs, or "sixty percent?"

Sorry. That's what I get for merely skimming the submitted news before posting it.
7 Nov 2005 ~ 3:31pm Garg

shwaip wrote:

I've never been so insulted by anyone implying that I have no life.

Shwaip runs off to cry about it on my blog.

Heh, I'm just glad that there isn't a counter of how many minutes (hours) I spend on this site. I (heart) SM, but surely checking the page every few minutes borders on unhealthy
7 Nov 2005 ~ 3:40pm shwaip

Gargoyle wrote:

Heh, I'm just glad that there isn't a counter of how many minutes (hours) I spend on this site. I (heart) SM, but surely checking the page every few minutes borders on unhealthy

Or so you think. I'm sure I've seen one at one point.
7 Nov 2005 ~ 3:49pm Enverex I agree that blogs are pointless. I mean who actually cares about what Joe Bloggs does in his daily pointless life? I'm also curious to know if this was an online survey as that would skew the results quite substancially.
7 Nov 2005 ~ 3:52pm Kwitko Nearly 3 in 5 have blogs. Nearly 100% of those 3 in 5 are creepy emo a-holes.
7 Nov 2005 ~ 4:18pm Garg

Enverex wrote:

I'm also curious to know if this was an online survey as that would skew the results quite substancially.

It was a telephone survey conducted this time last year. An online survey definitely would have skewed resutls. We should start a poll here, and see how we match up to the "average."
8 Nov 2005 ~ 7:04pm PirateNinja angst
9 Nov 2005 ~ 5:00pm sfleuriet

Shorty wrote:

Blogs suck.

Couldn't agree more. I hate them.

Xanga.com just got blocked on our district's internet filter today. A student was caught having a picture of the school's (highly unpopular) attendence clerk posted his Xanga, and probably had a comment or two about her. For that, he got 2 days of SAC and Xanga.com is no longer permitted on the campus. I've also heard that the principal and office people have ordered all students' Xanga sites printed out and read through. If you went to my school, you'd believe it too! I admit yes I do have a Xanga, but I never put actualy blog entries in it. It's just mainly for the chatterbox thing and to leave comments/chat to people during school. Obviously that's no longer going to happen..