Last week I asked readers a simple demographic question – ‘how old are you?’
My reason for asking wasn’t because I’m gathering data for advertisers (although I’m sure they’d be interested) but to test a theory that I’d been hearing a number of commentators say recently – that blogging is just something that ‘young people’ do.
In constructing the original poll I messed up the categories a little by having some 5 year ranges and some 10 year ones. This made it seem that the 31-40 year old range was the biggest – however when you add the 21-25 and 26-30 groups together it shows quite convincingly that the biggest group is actually 21 to 30 year olds.
Here’s how the spread of results look:
For those of you preferring to see the percentages:
- 57% of respondents are 30 or under
- 77% are 40 or under
- 88% are under 50
I guess the question of whether blogging is just for young people depends how you define ‘young’!
Don’t forget to vote in this week’s Poll which asks whether you disclose affiliate links.
