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Teens Don't Blog With Strangers
11/2/2005 | 
Coverage
Enid Burns , ClickZ.com
'"Nineteen percent of online teens create blogs while 38 percent read them, a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds. The study, which examined teens' blog consumption and creation, also found they obey the old adage "don't talk to strangers" -- at least when it comes to their blog-related behavior.
"Blogs are about the maintenance and extension of personal relationships," the report states. About 62 percent of blog-reading teens solely read friend's blogs while 36 percent read postings from both friends and blog authors they don't know.
"Teen bloggers and blog readers are reading the blogs of their friends," Pew Internet & American Life Project senior research specialist Amanda Lenhart told ClickZ News. "For young people it's about reinforcing and keeping relationships, not reading opinions of strangers."
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