Fourth-fifths of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 are wireless Internet users, and while many of them are getting to the Web using their laptops, they're also using netbooks, cell phones, game consoles and e-readers, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

“More so than for their elders, the Internet is a central and indispensable element in the lives of American teens and young adults,” the organization said in its report, “Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults,” released Wednesday. [...]

Since 2005, Pew said, its surveys have "consistently found that roughly one in 10 online adults maintain a personal online journal or blog." Last year, 15 percent of Internet users ages 18‐29 maintained a blog — a 9 percentage point drop in two years, the organization said. Among teens, 14 percent say they blog, down from 28 percent in 2006. However, Pew said, 11 percent of Internet users ages 30 and older continue to keep a personal blog.

"The blogging findings certainly surprised us — until we started looking at and thinking about the other activities that have risen during this time: Social networks, cell phones, texting," said Amanda Lenhart, Pew senior research specialist.

"The ways each (social) network enables blogging — as MySpace does, by featuring it prominently on a profile — or other features, as on Facebook, where the 'notes' serves a similar function ... push users into or away from blogging within the networks," she said.

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