>Susan Herring, professor of information science at Indiana University, sees it this way: “What the statistics point to is a rise in Facebook, a decline in blog

>Susan Herring, professor of information science at Indiana University, sees it this way: “What the statistics point to is a rise in Facebook, a decline in blogging, and before that, a decline in personal Web pages. The trend is clear, she said — Facebook is displacing these other forms of online publication.["] Can anyone verify this claim? Are active blogs decreasing or is the growth rate of new blogs just slowing? If it's just a slump in the creation rate of new blogs, perhaps it's because the proliferation of blogging tools a few years ago made it much easier for people to start blogging, and it hasn't been getting easier because it's aready really easy? If anything, I would predict the viral nature of Facebook gets new types of people accusttomed to sharing information online, and would lead to more blogs by increasing the number of would be bloggers to offset any decrease it might cause by providing its own sharing platform.