Are Adult Bloggers Ruining it for Kids?
I read an interesting post on Lockergnome today, written by my friend Ron. Ron cites a study that shows that only about 18% of teens today write in a blog. Only about 8% of them are Twitter users. However, about 55% regularly take part in other social networks, such as MySpace.
The original study claims that perhaps the low blogging percentage is due to the fact that teens are secretive by nature. They don’t want the world to know what they’re up to. If that were the case, then how do you explain all of the information overload on their MySpace pages? Ron brings up an excellent point of his own: when adults and parents show up, teens tend to withdraw.
With so many adults blogging these days, does it stand to reason that could be why our kids are not? Do they not want to be like us? Could they fear our reading what they are doing? What are your thoughts on this?
Ron’s article is excellent, and brings up much food for thought. There were also any number of other great things posted in our little corner of the world today. I hope you were able to read some of it!
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3 Comments
iJonathan
February 5th, 2010
at 5:04am
I can understand what you mean with the “Afraid we are reading what they write” part, I have a couple blogs, and my parents and other family members read them as well as other people, and I’m always afraid they will get mad because of something I wrote. I don’t think It’s that adult bloggers are making blogging not “Cool” for kids, but It’s just that the majority of kids don’t enjoy writing, or at least that’s how it is at my school. I’ve tried to get a couple of friends at school that write wonderfully, to start a blog, but they wont do it– yet. :P I say Adults keep on blogging, we gotta have something to read if the kids won’t do it.
The Rookie Blogger
February 5th, 2010
at 6:35am
It is very important for a blog to include a page that asks ‘are you 18 years old or above?’. This prevents kids from entering such blogs… ahehehehe
Sam L
February 5th, 2010
at 7:41am
Yeah. I’m looking at YOU Chris ;)