A study published this week by US organisation Pew Internet reveals the surprising conclusion that, whilst teens spend a long time on Facebook viewing status updates and photographs, they are far less likely to write a blog or use Twitter.
The study of 800 US teens found that whilst 93% used the web regularly, and 73% maintained an online profile on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace, just 8% of them used Twitter – the “microblogging” service where you post messages of 140 characters or less.
It is also revealed that “blogging” – the practice of writing an online account of your life, akin to a diary – has also decreased dramatically in younger people. In 2006, 28% of teens said that they were blogging. This has now dropped to just 14%.
The suggestion is that as the Facebook platform becomes more sophisticated and gives the user ever-increasing ways to share information, long-format blogging simply isn’t necessary.
Similarly, Twitter can be a complex concept for young people to grasp – why bother when Facebook is so accessible?
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Friday, 5 February 2010
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