BLOGS!!!!!!!!! are so last decade

[TheSportsPredictor]

Could the blogs bubble be bursting?

A study shows that teenagers just aren't that into them like they used to me. Twentysomethings, too.

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/02/is_blogging_a_slog_some_young.html

Seems they're an, ahem, greying of bloggers and their readers.

Everyone sign up for Facebook and Twitter now, k?

 

[WaylonJennings]

Facebook is skewing older now, too.

The whole social networking phenomenon actually seems to be slowing down, from my purely anecdotal observations of young people. They mostly just use it as an email system to send out invites to events and so forth.

 

[deskslave]

And to join an endless parade of groups and fan pages for basic declarative statements.

 

[WaylonJennings]

And to join an endless parade of groups and fan pages for basic declarative statements.

Yeah, but most of the, "John Doe is eating a glazed donut!" posts come from the over-30 set, honest to God.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

And to join an endless parade of groups and fan pages for basic declarative statements.

2muchcoffeeman became a fan of This.

 

[Lugnuts]

Facebook is skewing older now, too.

The whole social networking phenomenon actually seems to be slowing down, from my purely anecdotal observations of young people. They mostly just use it as an email system to send out invites to events and so forth.

I was going to start a thread asking the same thing. Facebook seems to be on the way down.

Not sure about Twitter b/c I never bothered.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

This is the problem with newspapers trying "harness the latest technology." By the time they do, it's dead - or at least dead to the demographic we paper people try to reach (i.e. 18-30)

Take a chronological look:

Blogs
Myspace
Facebook
Twitter

What's next? And how long does it last?

 

[txsportsscribe]

And to join an endless parade of groups and fan pages for basic declarative statements.

Yeah, but most of the, "John Doe is eating a glazed donut!" posts come from the over-30 set, honest to God.

why do you hate glazed donuts?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

This is the problem with newspapers trying "harness the latest technology." By the time they do, it's dead - or at least dead to the demographic we paper people try to reach (i.e. 18-30)

Take a chronological look:

Blogs
Myspace
Facebook
Twitter

What's next? And how long does it last?

I don't know, but I can add another line item to your list of things newspaper executives got to too late in their attempt to harness the latest technology:
AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

Thing is, even if you do "harness this technology" it's dead in two years. And then what? On to the next?

We're spending all this time, money and energy on "the next big thing" all the while, the only constant and proven product we have burns to the ground because most papers half-ass their effort on blogs, facebook and twitter.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

This is the problem with newspapers trying "harness the latest technology." By the time they do, it's dead - or at least dead to the demographic we paper people try to reach (i.e. 18-30)

Take a chronological look:

Blogs
Myspace
Facebook
Twitter

What's next? And how long does it last?

Who said Facebook or blogging was dead or dying to any demographic? Younger people aren't doing as many long-form blogs, but that hardly means it's going the way of the flash mob. Facebook is graying, but that's more attributable to the number of older people signing on.

I know a lot of people are mistrustful of the Internet, but it's not the enemy.

 

[WaylonJennings]

This is the problem with newspapers trying "harness the latest technology." By the time they do, it's dead - or at least dead to the demographic we paper people try to reach (i.e. 18-30)

Take a chronological look:

Blogs
Myspace
Facebook
Twitter

What's next? And how long does it last?

Who said Facebook or blogging was dead or dying to any demographic? Younger people aren't doing as many long-form blogs, but that hardly means it's going the way of the flash mob. Facebook is graying, but that's more attributable to the number of older people signing on.

I know a lot of people are mistrustful of the Internet, but it's not the enemy.

Where are you getting THAT?

 

[Mystery Meat II]

This is the problem with newspapers trying "harness the latest technology." By the time they do, it's dead - or at least dead to the demographic we paper people try to reach (i.e. 18-30)

Take a chronological look:

Blogs
Myspace
Facebook
Twitter

What's next? And how long does it last?

Who said Facebook or blogging was dead or dying to any demographic? Younger people aren't doing as many long-form blogs, but that hardly means it's going the way of the flash mob. Facebook is graying, but that's more attributable to the number of older people signing on.

I know a lot of people are mistrustful of the Internet, but it's not the enemy.

Where are you getting THAT?

He declared Facebook and Twitter as dead or dying in the post I quoted.

 

[RickStain]

They will. These things always peak in popularity and then slowly go away.

Before there was Facebook there was Myspace. And before there was Myspace there was Friendster.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

This is the problem with newspapers trying "harness the latest technology." By the time they do, it's dead - or at least dead to the demographic we paper people try to reach (i.e. 18-30)

Take a chronological look:

Blogs
Myspace
Facebook
Twitter

What's next? And how long does it last?

Who said Facebook or blogging was dead or dying to any demographic? Younger people aren't doing as many long-form blogs, but that hardly means it's going the way of the flash mob. Facebook is graying, but that's more attributable to the number of older people signing on.

I know a lot of people are mistrustful of the Internet, but it's not the enemy.

Well, the article in the original post says blogs have lost their luster. Show a person who still uses MySpace and I'll show you someone still using a Commodore 64.

And a quick google turns up numbers suggesting those outside the 18-35 demo (which I noted) are growing faster than those numbers of that highly sought after demo.

Like RickStain said, these things always pass. At least they always have. Nothing has seemed to stick.

So, our left behind publishers and editors have us "get on board" way too late all while taking resources away from the one thing that makes us money (albeit not as much as in the past): The newspaper!

 

[WaylonJennings]

This is the problem with newspapers trying "harness the latest technology." By the time they do, it's dead - or at least dead to the demographic we paper people try to reach (i.e. 18-30)

Take a chronological look:

Blogs
Myspace
Facebook
Twitter

What's next? And how long does it last?

Who said Facebook or blogging was dead or dying to any demographic? Younger people aren't doing as many long-form blogs, but that hardly means it's going the way of the flash mob. Facebook is graying, but that's more attributable to the number of older people signing on.

I know a lot of people are mistrustful of the Internet, but it's not the enemy.

Where are you getting THAT?

He declared Facebook and Twitter as dead or dying in the post I quoted.

I don't think that's about the Internet being scary, but about it being constantly changing.

 

[WaylonJennings]

This is the problem with newspapers trying "harness the latest technology." By the time they do, it's dead - or at least dead to the demographic we paper people try to reach (i.e. 18-30)

Take a chronological look:

Blogs
Myspace
Facebook
Twitter

What's next? And how long does it last?

Who said Facebook or blogging was dead or dying to any demographic? Younger people aren't doing as many long-form blogs, but that hardly means it's going the way of the flash mob. Facebook is graying, but that's more attributable to the number of older people signing on.

I know a lot of people are mistrustful of the Internet, but it's not the enemy.

Well, the article in the original post says blogs have lost their luster. Show a person who still uses MySpace and I'll show you someone still using a Commodore 64.

And a quick google turns up numbers suggesting those outside the 18-35 demo (which I noted) are growing faster than those numbers of that highly sought after demo.

Like RickStain said, these things always pass. At least they always have. Nothing has seemed to stick.

So, our left behind publishers and editors have us "get on board" way too late all while taking resources away from the one thing that makes us money (albeit not as much as in the past): The newspaper!

The problem is that young people don't read the actual newspaper. They just don't. And they won't. I brought a NYT to class one time to read in the 10 minutes before it started, and the woman next to me, who is 22 or 23, said, "Wow! A newspaper!" And these are the smart ones. For the long-term health of the industry, the print product as a standalone is dead.

 

[RickStain]

Young people have never read newspapers.

The thing about young people is that no matter how badly they don't want to think about it, eventually they turn into old people.

 

[goalmouth]

YouTube is still going strong, as are Flickr and other video/photo-sharing sites.

 

[WaylonJennings]

Young people have never read newspapers.

The thing about young people is that no matter how badly they don't want to think about it, eventually they turn into old people.

It's different. Those young people, throughout history, didn't read them because they weren't interested in the news yet. Those young people watched their parents read newspapers. They were aware of them. They just weren't interested in the news yet.

These, on the other hand, are young people, the ones I know, who are interested in the news, interested in current events. They don't read newspapers. They never will. They are not part of their consciousness. They are baffled, even offended, by the idea of paying for content, and certainly by the idea of carrying around a newspaper. Computers are the information Wal-Mart. One-stop shopping. They don't want a separate device to read the news and watch movies. They want it in one compact device, their laptop.