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What's on your children's minds? Check their blogs
11/3/2005 | 
Coverage
Chris Cobbs, Orlando Sentinel
'“This is not your grandmother's diary, though she may log on and read it.
Blogs, or Web diaries, are surging in popularity among today's youths, a tech-savvy generation that doesn't flinch at posting musings online for potentially millions -- or at least a few friends -- to see.
Whether fretting over relationships or ranting about politics, about 4 million of the nation's youths are turning to blogs to share their thoughts and feelings. And nearly double that number are reading them, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
,br>These young people, ages 12 to 17, see the Web as a place to commune with peers without monitoring by parents, teachers or other gatekeepers, said Amanda Lenhart, who co-authored the study by Pew, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit group that has looked at Internet usage in the past few years.
"Blogs are about reinforcing relationships with people they know," Lenhart said. "This is counterintuitive to news reports of blogs as a source of news and political information, but that's not the way teens are using blogs."
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