Kids these days...  John Martin's picture  (I started this as a
reply to John Thomson's post& "Blogging no longer a hit with
teens, but quickly realized that it's less about what kids don't
do —blogging— and more about what they do —social networking.)
They don't email.  They don't tweet.  And now they don't blog?
What *do* they do?  From the Pew report:  What this suggests (to
me, at least) is that the internet is largely a social medium
for teens. And thus is following social conversation norms:    •
less soapbox (hence less interest in long formats, such as blogs
and email)   • more connections and interest in the knowledge
and information that their peers feel is important (social
networks)   • more quips (short formats, such as status updates
and comments), but they don't want these to be public — they
want to control who sees them (thus, not Twitter). What are the
implications for technology in higher education?  These 12-17
year olds will become our students for the next 5-10 years, and
the habits th