Pew Internet & American Life Project (February 03, 2010)
By Amanda Lenhart, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith, Kathryn Zickuhr

Since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults

while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools

and technology embedded in social networking sites

change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may

be exchanging ‘macro-blogging’ for microblogging with status updates.