PEW finds that young people are finding long form blogging less “sexy”

PEW is reporting that there is a drop in blogging among the under 30 demographic, a general lack of adoption of Twitter, except for high school girls who seem to be getting keen on it. The reason for this drop seems to be Social Media.

But for all the drop in activity that might be caused by the increased adoption of Social Media, there might be an increase of people who will start using traditional blogging for some of the advantages it has (length, data portability) that social media updating doesn’t allow. To me, I would think that if you’ve got a population that is keen on sharing what it is doing with everyone and anyone, but it is one that has just enough time to input a couple taps to update a status, then the lack of longer compositions make sense. But as people get a chance, and are able to reflect on those smaller updates, I think you’ll see old skool blogs coming back.

At the same time, it doesn’t seem to me that old skool blogging is going to take this laying down. WordPress has released tools for all three major mobile platforms and this tool could help traditional blog find a place in this mobile and fast paced world.