Study: Teens blogging less, using Facebook more

It seems that blogging is so "over" for most teens, as they turn to social networking sites in droves, according to a recent report. According to a report in USA Today, blogging among teens and young adults has plummeted since 2006. In that year, 28 percent of teenagers from 12 to 17 and adults ages 18 to 29 were bloggers. By the fall of 2009, the numbers had dropped to 14 percent of teens and 15 percent of young adults, according to the study. But it may be a shift in social media preference that has precipitated the decline in blogging, according to the report.. "What we think is really going on here - why young people aren't doing blogs anymore - is that there's been a move from MySpace, which put blogging front and center, to Facebook, which doesn't have that," study author, Amanda Lenhart told the USA Today. Overall, the survey found that 73 percent of teens aged 12 to 17 use social networks in one form or another.