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February 5, 2010, 12:39 PM ET
Teen Digital Media Update
For teens (12-17-year-olds), blogging is down and networking is up. That's the finding in a new report from Pew Research, whose Internet & American Life Project is one of the longest ongoing survey initiatives out there. The summary appears here.
While 28 percent of teen users in 2006 claimed that they keep a blog, that number now stands at 14 percent. And while 76 percent of them claimed in 2006 to comment on blogs at social networking sites, we are now down to 52 percent. For all adult users over the same period, the numbers haven't much changed.
Meanwhile, while 55 percent of teen users went to socal networking sites in Nov 2006 and 65 percent of them in Feb 2008, we are now at 73 percent. That is one point higher than the rate of 18-29-year-olds who network. Overall, adults rose from 37 percent in Nov 2008 to 47 percent today.
Also, only 8 percent of teens use Twitter. Also, mobile use continues to work down the age ladder. While 18 percent of 12-year-olds had a cell phone in 2004, fully 58 percent have one now.
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