Facebook has become the most powerful social networking profile with its more than 350 million user base. But has the popularity of social networking sites demeaned the value of blogging? If we look at the vast majority of blogging beside the usual technology and corporates blogs, there are many teens expressing themselves in the blog with their thoughts and life. Places like MySpace still has a strong grasp of strong user base who use the site to express themselves.
But the rapid success of Facebook and their aggressive move in the social space has surely changed the Internet. It has affected macro blogging with its micro status updates and online gaming with it social networking games. The new changes being seen in the online games are also being seen in the blogging arena.
Recent Pew survey suggests that the teens have been preferring micro blogging rather than creating your own blog space. In 2006, 28% of teen Internet users were blogging, and now only 14% do so. Where as adult blog use is steadily increasing, with one in 10 online adults now maintaining a blog. Statistics also show that 73 percent of wired american teens now use social networking websites which is a significant increase. Moreover half (55%) of online teens used social networking sites in November 2006 which has increased to 65% in February 2008.
Looking at the demographic of social networking sites, young adults ages 18 to 29 have similar habits to teens, with 72% of Web users in that age group using the social Web sites. Facebook is popular among young adults and adults 30 and older. Among young adults, 71% of people with a social network profile use Facebook, 66% use MySpace and 7% use LinkedIn. Among the 30-plus crowd, 75% use Facebook, 36% use MySpace and 19% are on LinkedIn. Twitteris most popular among young adults ages 18-29, with one-third using such services. Just 8% of kids age 12 to 17 use Twitter.
The study also found that mobile devices have replaced the desktop computers. Devices like mobiles, smartphones and laptops. This change in the shift from traditional blogging to social networking isn’t really difficult to understand. If you visit some of the blogs from teens than you will clearly see that they use it to communicate and share ideas with friends rather than create a knowledge sharing content. They have limited visitors mostly friends, so in a way, Facebook makes a perfect sense for them.
Today blogging has bloomed into a different business model where people are professionally involved to create valuable contents to their mass user base. Social Networking sites like Twitter and Facebook still needs a lot more time to have its space in the corporate world but the movement is certainly there.
*The Pew Survey included 800 teens ages 12 to 17 and their parents; and 2,253 adults ages 18 and older.
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