From Ed Cone, via Steve Rubel, through Shel Israel, we find that Charlene Li published a new study of blog use and discovered that a quarter of Generation Y reads blogs, which is twice as much as Generation X and three times as much as Boomers (which generation was Generation F and, once the Generation Z of my kids grows up, will there be another generation after them at all, or do we start using the Greek alphabet instead?).
MySpace is for highschoolers. Facebook is for college students (who tolerate, for now, a small number of highschoolers, grad students, faculty and staff, but may leave in a stampedo if/when Facebook lets non-"edu" addresses in). So, what kinds of blogs do they read/write? Were MySpace blogs, Facebook Notes, MSNSpaces, AOLblogs, Xanga and LiveJournals counted in the study?
Joe McCarthy takes a long hard look at a whole series of polls and studies on blog use by various age groups.
Out of millions of Gen-Y-ers reading and writing blogs, I hope at least some cover science-related topics sometimes, or come to ScienceBlogs to interact with us. How many of my readers are Gen Y?
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It'd be interesting to fire up one of those polling sites Dave and Greta use and get some data on this, as far as age distribution.
Posted by: Tara C. Smith | September 16, 2006 11:56 PM
If I only knew how to make on of those...
Posted by: coturnix | September 17, 2006 12:05 AM
I'm a 21 year old Swedish comp. sci/ee-major and I read scienceblogs, esp. Pharyngula and GMBM regularly. I have all the other feeds, such as this, aggregated too.
Keep up the good work :)
Posted by: Marcus | September 17, 2006 7:44 AM
I'm borderline GenX-GenY. At least a couple of other ScienceBlogs bloggers fall into this demographic.
Posted by: RPM | September 17, 2006 10:59 AM
I'm gen Y and I have a science blog. I use Blogger, though. I like hosting my own blog; it feels more like a portfolio that way. Which is what it is for me; practice science writing.
Posted by: Rivqa | September 18, 2006 7:12 AM