Dear Mouse,
Let me thank Mark for helping me
in the tabular presentation. High appreciation
from a technologically-challenged like me.
Those who are asking my motivation
to conduct this kind of research, my
answer is Wala, lang. Type ko lang.
The truth of the matter (cliche) is
my curiosity about the profile of our very own
kababayan bloggers cropped up after perusing
the findings of the study on bloggers
here in the US. I want to make a comparison
later.
I enjoyed reading the one hundred so blogs.
Reading the personal blogs is just like
looking into the lives of these people,
what they do,what they feel, what their
heartaches are, their frustrations,
their angst;summarily described as the
ramblings rantings and musings of faceless
strangers. After the profile,I will
discuss what topics commonly discussed,
who are serious bloggers, funny and
informative.
And what they eat too.
If this does not interest some,
let this blog be considered the bun
in the sandwich of my humoruous blogs.
DOn'T aSk mE wHat ThIs StAtemeT means.
I have also no idea.mwehehehe.
Philipine-based blogsite/website owners
Table 4 Distribution according to age
| |
Female |
|
Male |
|
|
| age |
number |
% |
|
number |
% |
| below 20 |
3 |
8% |
|
5 |
14% |
| 21-30 |
16 |
47% |
|
15 |
43% |
| 31-40 |
13 |
37% |
|
13 |
37% |
| 41 above |
3 |
8% |
|
2 |
6% |
| total |
35 |
100% |
|
35 |
100% |
Percentages show that more than 50
per cent of the bloggers/siteowners are less
that 30 years of age both for male and female.
Although the number of male subjects is
lower than that of the female in the age
bracket below 30, the total including bloggers
who are below 20 constitute a higher percentage
of 57 per cent. One of the delimitations of
the study is the exclusion of live journal users
who may be mostly girls below 20.
Amazingly, there is an equal number of
male and female bloggers under the over 30
age bracket.
The blogging women above 40 outnumber
the men in the same age category.
Men over 40 may have diversions
other than tinkering the pc.
It is interesting to find out therefore
what these people blog considering the
notion that it is the weaker sex
who is expected to blurt out her
feelings. So men too?
Status
Table 4 Distribution according to Status
| |
Female |
|
Male |
|
|
| Status |
number |
% |
|
number |
% |
| Single |
26 |
74% |
|
18 |
51% |
| Married |
9 |
26% |
|
17 |
49% |
| total |
35 |
100% |
|
35 |
100% |
Very interesting finding. There are more married
young male bloggers compared to female.
Seventy four per cent of the female bloggers
are single; about five of whom are engaged to be married.
Since the age profile revealed that 50 per cent
of the female fall under below 30 category, the
percentage over the 50 can be deduced to have
come from the above 30 bracket.
This is not a surprise for me since most of
Pinay bloggers are career women and priorities
at the moment may not include walking in the aisle.
Or finding the right man becomes a mission
impossible for women who are on top of their
career? Nagtatanong lang 'noh.
The married male bloggers are only
a few number short to equal the number
of the singles.
Resuscitate me. Does it mean that mas
maagang lumalandi ang lalaki kaysa babae?
Even those below 30 male are already married.
Hmmmmm.
Or the young married women are too busy to
attend to their wifely duties and career that
they have no time to blog.
Year started
Table 6 Distribution according to the
year started
| |
Female |
|
Male |
|
|
| Year |
number |
% |
|
number |
% |
| 1996 |
1 |
3% |
|
0 |
0% |
| 1997 |
0 |
0% |
|
1 |
3% |
| 2000 |
0 |
0% |
|
1 |
3% |
| 2001 |
1 |
3% |
|
2 |
6% |
| 2002 |
5 |
15% |
|
2 |
6% |
| 2003 |
16 |
45% |
|
19 |
54% |
| 2004 |
12 |
34% |
|
10 |
28% |
| total |
35 |
100% |
|
35 |
100% |
It was 2003 when many of these subjects
started blogging.
Fifty four cent of the male indicated that
they have been bloggers since 2003.
Although only 45 per cent of the women started
in the same year, they also posted a significant
15 per cent who initiated their blogs in 2002.
On the overall, more than sixty per cent of
the bloggers included in this study started
before 2004.
What is interesting in this table is to
see one or two who are already into
websites even before blogging was unheard of
and operating a site required special
techonology know-how.
Only a few remained active and saved
their archives that dated back to the
years they started blogging ermmm writing
in the web.
One of these is a young lady who has
an archive way back in 1996. And she just
had her debut.
With regards the men who are already into
web design in late 90's, they are still very
much around and are in my links.
Next the overseas bloggers.
The Ca t
