Survey: One in Five Teens Have Own Blogs

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited November 2005 in Science & Tech
Almost 20% 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

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    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. :confused:
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    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. :confused:

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

    /me runs off to cry about it on my blog.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    Blogs suck.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    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!
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    Very :shakehead :p
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    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. :rolleyes:
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    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 ;)
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    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.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    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.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    Nearly 3 in 5 have blogs. Nearly 100% of those 3 in 5 are creepy emo a-holes.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    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."
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    angst :):)
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited November 2005
    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.. :p
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