Social Media For Teens using blogs

Social Media for Teens
Using Blogs
By Craig Ross

What are we doing today?
What is a blog?
Why learn to blog?
Who blogs?
How do you start blogging?

70% of teens use social networking sites

What is a blog?
“ Blog” is short of “Web Log”
Some people also call it a online journal
How do you recognize a blog?
It is dated and organized
It is updated regularly
It lets you leave comments!
A person who blogs is called a BLOGGER
Blogger is also a website!

Why learn to blog?
Blogs is a tool!
They make it easy to:
Create a website
Share information with others
Easy to update
Lets you focus on the content
Share links, pictures, videos, audios and more!

Why learn to blog?
Blogs help young people to:
Learn the latest online technology
Improve typing
Improve editing skills
Showcase your photos, drawings and writings to the whole world!
Improve your spelling!
Increase communication with friends and relatives
Get to know more people!

Who Blogs?
Technorati: tracking over 112.8 million blogs

64% of all teens are creating content online

Internet The Space for Teens
93% of teens use the internet 12-17
30% of teens keep blog and regularly post
54% read blogs
33% of online teens swap files on peer to peer
63% of teens go online daily

How do you start blogging?

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