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If we bloggers can’t poke a little fun at ourselves every now and again, we take our craft way too seriously.

As the great Pat Sayjack once said about his fabled Wheel of Fortune career, “At the end of the day, I host a game show.”

In a somewhat unsurprising study, it was revealed that teens find blogs to be boring. I can’t say that I’m shocked!

Teens prefer the hyper-paced platform of social networks like MySpace which, despite its apparent pox-like status amongst the adult world, still remains the platform of choice for teens.

Blogging is slowly becoming the domain of adults, as a recent Pew study shows more teens abandoning the medium for social networks.

The study, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, showed a decline in the number of teens who say they blog, from 28 percent in 2006 to 18 percent in 2009, when the study was conducted. Just 52 percent comment on their friends’ blogs, versus 76 percent three years ago.

By contrast, the survey found that about 10 percent of adults maintain a blog, a figure that has remained unchanged.

What does this mean for the future of blogging? My thoughts go like this: blogging may be popular with adults now, but what happens when these teens turn into young adults turn into taxpayers?

Will tomorrow’s teens ditch MySpace in favor of “my opinion”?

“You leave with the girl you brought to the dance,” as the saying goes. My point? Teens-turned-adults may not “adopt” the adult platform of blogging and may stick with the various social networks that have become second nature to them.