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“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. Tech experts say it doesn't mean blogging is going away. Rather, it's gone the way of the telephone and e-mail — still useful, just not sexy.”

This is not my subtle way of telling our professors that blogging for their awesome class is not sexy ;) We are not even part of the age group in which this trend has been observed. According to the article, the loss of interest is caused by the surge of social networking, the use of mobile phones to access the internet, and the fact that the young ones do not think reading is fun. While the teens are shifting away from long-form blogging, there has been an increase in blogging among adults. Adults really seem to have more difficulty keeping up with technology, and maybe they just recently discovered the potential of blogs. There’s too much going on in the world of technology that responding promptly to the issues it creates becomes almost impossible. Aside from the technical developments, consideration must also be given to user behavior, wants and needs, cultural differences, and other environmental factors. As what this trend in blogging shows, each ICT service has a different purpose to different persons and elicits varied reactions and behavior. Laws must be general yet responsive. But because of the dynamic nature of ICT and the creativity of developers and users, legal systems may not be able to ride along with it, if they even dare to.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_blogging_matures;_ylt=Ambzjo_uLxWHqzECLLqK.SEjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJvZDdrN3I3BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMjAzL3VzX3RlY19ibG9nZ2luZ19tYXR1cmVzBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNpc2Jsb2dnaW5nYXM-