The state of the internet
2010/02/06 // Leeds // // Feed
Mashable recently published an article about current usage statistics on the internet. The study was drawn up by focus.com and accompanied by a really nice graphic (below).
What i find most interesting is the share of people who use the internet over the share of people who are actively blogging. The most active bloggers are found in the 35-44 age range, however the 55-64 age range are more active than 18-24 year olds. On the other hand the amount of younger people using the internet is a lot larger than older age groups.
I’m wondering, what’s it going to take for more people from younger generations to start blogging? Is there something so unappealing about signing up and creating a blog? Services such as Blogger and Tumblr have made the barriers to entry as low as possible, some would even say inviting.
Maybe it’s the fact that you can’t hide your opinions behind a blanket of other comments under the security of the latest and greatest social network. People enjoy that security, it could be that people are scared to display their opinion outside of their own friendship circles, as blogging is considerably more public and open to criticism.
Maybe it’s none of that. It could just be that the amount of people blogging about business, hobbies and the like are just a bit more into the whole blogging notion, as it will inevitably be more beneficial to their career or business. It’ll be interesting to know if in a years time these figures still sing the same song that’s for sure.
Credits for the crisp graphic go to focus.com.