Blogging? That's so 2008.

"Is blogging a slog? Some young people think so"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_blogging_matures

The study reported in this article might explain why so many of us in this class haven't done much blogging in the past (my emphases):

• "A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile."
• "The study . . . found that 14 percent of Internet youths, ages 12 to 17, now say they blog, compared with just over a quarter who did so in 2006. And only about half in that age group say they comment on friends' blogs, down from three-quarters who did so four years ago. Pew found a similar drop in blogging among 18- to 29-year-olds."
• "The Pew survey found that nearly three-quarters of 12- to 17-year-olds who have access to the Internet use social networking sites, such as Facebook. That compares with 55 percent four years ago."
• "All of that rings true to Sarah Rondeau, a freshman at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. 'It's a matter of typing quickly. People these days don't find reading that fun,' the 18-year-old student says."

Yikes.