The Scoop on Blogging

Blogging. Who does it? It is certainly not a central topic for college students. One would think that blogging would be the perfect forum for college students to express themselves and cultivate personal interest, but according to Pew Internet surveys, a decline in blogging among teens and young adults is shown. Here are some of the statistics Pew Internet found about the usage of social media sites relating to young adults:

• 8% Twitter



• 73% Facebook



• 48 % MySpace



• 14% LinkedIn

There are often shifts in social network usage among different age groups. The amount of people using twitter shows that it must not bee too popular with the college age group; this is also the same for blogging. The statistics show that blogging has not been much of a sensation as other social media sites are.

So, why aren't more students blogging? Generation Y operates on status updates and texting. Blogging actually requires writing full sentences, which takes time and effort. Essentially, blogging is a great in developing community with related interests and hobbies, but it does not connect people like Facebook and MySpace. This highly-social generation wants news and gossip, and wants it immediately without confusion and difficulty. Blogging may be ideal for our parents, but for now, we'll stick with our microblogging.