Seeing as I haven’t had much to talk about lately (or else nothing I feel like sharing) I wondered about other blogs out there and what they talk about. Here is what I found. It tells us that over 50% of the blogs out there are authored by teens and another 40% by twenty-somethings.

This got me thinking. What would life have been like when we were younger if we had something like the internet and blogs. For most of us in this blog circle, the internet didn’t come to us until college, if that. In our younger years we turned to note passing, song writing, hard copy journals, school papers, underground papers, and good old fashioned phone calls. Today kids have Instant Messaging, cell phone/blackberry text messaging, email, and yes, blogs.

As some of my friends know, I have confessed to authoring a poor excuse for an underground paper while in high school called “The Real Issue.” Instead, I think with the proper resources, I would have loved to write an anonymous blog for all to contribute to. I am positive the publishing side of blogs would have enticed me since what I loved most about the underground paper was laying it out, putting it together, and then seeing the finished product. It was less about content (which is obvious now) and more about the fact something had been created that hadn’t existed before.

So here I am trying to find that bit of inspiration that the teens of today have and I once had, hoping to inspire in me some new blogging pattern. But I have a sneaking suspicion that short of some life-altering event, I may have to start making some stuff up.