---
title: "Blasé about Blogs"
description: "The plurality opinion is that the emergence of blogs has not made much of a difference."
date: "2009-01-06"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/01/06/blase-about-blogs/"
---

# Blasé about Blogs

Relatively few among the public see internet blogs as an important addition to the American scene. The plurality opinion (36%) is that the emergence of blogs has not made much of a difference. Slightly fewer (29%) call them a change for the better, while 21% think they have been a change for the worse. Younger Americans are by far the most impressed with blogging. Fully 44% say blogs have been a change for the better. By comparison, far fewer adults ages 50 to 64 (22%) or adults ages 65 and older (15%) see blogs as an improvement. In regards to education, those with a college degree are no more likely to say blogs have been a change for the better than are those with a high school education or less. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1447/worst-decade-major-technological-communications-advances)