Blogging is great fun. You get to say what you want, how you want.
I seem to be in a minority amongst my age cohort with this opinion.
This article in AARP magazine reckons the percentage of 50-plus Blogger could be as low as 5%. Blogster.com, a site where users create their own Web pages, says 22% of its bloggers are now over the age of 50. This is a 20% increase since October 2005.
Pew Internet has just released a new report about blogging and it puts the number at 16%.
All of these numbers might be misleading since zillions of people start a blog, put on a couple of posting and forget about it. What you really want to measure is the percentage of an age group that are regular bloggers.
These are three examples of 50-plus blogs. All well worth visiting.
octogenarian.blogspot.com Ex-journalist Mort Reichek, 81, discusses his World War II experiences and thoughts on global politics.
jenett.org/ageless Okay, it isn't technically a blog site, but it has links to an array of blogs created by people 50 and older.
helpmebubby.blogspot.com Created by 90-year-old novice Lillian Tashlik, this Dear Abby of the blogosphere dispenses advice to love-struck teens. Dick Stroud
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